[systemd-devel] I wonder… why systemd provokes this amount of polarity and resistance

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 21.10.14 11:47, Martin Steigerwald (Martin at lichtvoll.de) wrote:

> > > So or so… I think its this kind of attitude that triggers most of the
> > > polarity and split.
> > 
> > Well, our priority is to solve technical problems in a way we perceive
> > elegant and minimal. Your priority appears to be appeasing people who
> > prefer religious reasoning over technical reasoning. I am pretty sure
> > you cannot appease those, and we will not compromise our technical
> > necessesities for that.
> > 
> > Anyway, can we please end this discussion on this ML please? Please
> > continue this somewhere else, this ML is really for technical
> > discussions.
> > 
> > Sorry,
> 
> Well… actually I tried to discuss the concerns I and others have openly.
> 
> I went through the hassle to provide the feedback where it matters… upstream… 
> instead of joining the flamefests elsewhere or calling you names…
> 
> … but it seems to me you are so sensitive to feedback that I don´t have the 
> impression you even relate to the concerns I voiced here, which in part is a 
> summary of the part of concerns I read elsewhere I see as being founded.

We are always interested in technical feedback. 

We are not very interested in FUD mails that tell us how we'd "force"
people, how we'd behave like microsoft and so on. That's not useful,
that's pretty much only hurtful. 

Sorry,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat