Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Linda Walsh said the following on 05/09/2013 12:04 AM: Compared to Windows, Linux is a liberal democracy. Our democracies may be imperfect (See Churchill on that) but if you don't like it you can join or set up a political part and get your own platform. At various stages in the process you can submit proposals and issues to be voted on, pressure your politicians.
NO. This indicates an incorrect and ideological understanding of Open Source. Open Source is in no way like 'democracy'. in democracy every coach potato with an axe to grind or imagined grievance gets to vote. it does not work that way in Open Source. Open Source is a tyranny of the contributor. Plain and simple. You write code - you win. You whine - nobody cares.
If you don't like openSuse with systemd ...
Fortunately I do. 20+ years of UNIX administration ... die SysV die. I am so tired of sermons from those of the tired religion of the holy text file. If someones vision of good system administration involves grep and regular expressions I don't want to be employed beside them. These things are HACKS, are always broken (or about the break), and very difficult to figure out when you go into a site.
Roman poet Horace, which I think is appropriate here: If a better system is thine, impart it freely; If not, make use of mine.
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