Lennart Poettering on the state of open source communities
I'm very grateful that Lennart Poettering wrote this post. I don't necessarily use the software he writes (my next distro will be systemd based) but I'm still happy that he writes it. It has advanced the state of Linux distributions (due to PulseAudio, lots of ALSA driver bugs were found and fixed, systemd has prompted improvements to other init/acpid/udev/automount/etc software too) regardless whether you use the software he wrote or not.<p>But the amount of flak he receives is unacceptable. The tone which people talk about him and even <i>to</i> him is despicable.<p>I'm glad he spoke up and hopefully people will realize that open source contributors are people too. If you have a <i>technical</i> reason to disagree, taking it personal is not constructive.