Op vrijdag 14 juli 2017 19:09:31 CEST schreef Anton Aylward:
On 14/07/17 12:53 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
I reject the premise that the only rational response to defects is to abandon everything rather than work to correct the defect.
A perfectly rational statement because the word "only" is there.
Sometimes the solution to a problem is to "do something else". As I see Einstein being quoted as saying "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
As far as I can make out systemd does solve problems that are either insoluble using SysVinit or are simply so rococo using SysVinit as to be unintelligible and unmaintainable by us mere mortals.
Hear, hear. It's like Windows users sticking to XP and moaning that the latest Office performs badly. Ooops. Furthermore I'd like to state I'm not a friend of Lennart, never met him actually, but that I do dislike the bashing of him. IMHO he's one of the FOSS people that have dared to step up and do something. Which, IMNSHO deserves respect.
However, many Linux user are not facing those problems. And that, like hamlet said, is the rub.
As for 'wisdom', that seems to be a $10 word when what was really lacking was a ten-cent word: TACT.
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