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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] systemd
From:       "Brian K. White" <brian () aljex ! com>
Date:       2017-07-14 20:22:18
Message-ID: 25367707-fe27-2c73-25ce-79796a476fdf () aljex ! com
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On 7/14/2017 3:34 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
> On 14/07/17 03:11 PM, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Indeed.
>
> In one of the classic texts on logical circuit design, so fundamental that its
> idea are probably embedded in every design tool and now taken for granted in the
> profession, is a quotation from the Roman poet Homer.  In translation it reads:
>
>         Brother, if you have a better idea, propose it freely.
>         If not, make use of mine.
>
> Or, idiomatically:
>
> 	Put up or shut up.
>
> Its easy being a critic.
> Contributing something that is effective, lasting, easy to understand and
> maintain, and extensible is quite another matter.
>

Uh, the better idea had already been proposed, and it proved itself for 
decades. Nothing about systemd improves upon it.

systemd is like saying you think you invented a better way to do 
accounting. All that best-practices stuff they taught everyone for 
decades, so old and obsolete, we have a better way where we don't have 
to do all that annoying double entry stuff. Oh ok. Got it.

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bkw

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