On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 11:47 +0200, František Kučera wrote: > Dne 15. 10. 19 v 21:56 Svante Signell napsal(a): > > As you know there is > > only one _upstream_ of systemd and that upstream is a company. > > Systemd software is developed by that company, and as you also know > > is that contributions, patches and bug reports coming from outside > > that company are frown upon. People reporting issues are even met > > with hostility. > > I agree that systemd has quality/complexity issues, but it is not > vendor lock-in. It is free software so you can fork it – and if your > fork would be better, distributions would use it and Red Hat would > stay alone with their original systemd.
In your dreams. How can you compete with a company having full-time software developers with your own free time?? It is a vendor lock-in. Period! > Free software does not mean that every patch must be accepted. If it > would accept everything, it would be total mess with many > unintentional or even intentional bugs and flaws. It is the > author/maintainer of given project, who is responsible for the > quality. And if author's view diverges too much from the user's view, > it is time to fork. Have you ever followed any of the bug reports/feature requests/patches sent to upstream of systemd. If not, please do some reading before you reply to this mail, thanks! In summary, let's agree that we disagree!
