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#201 Re: News & Announcements » Bound to happen ... » 2020-06-18 10:21:57
Torvalds is NOT paid by corporations, he's not on their payrolls. He's employed by a foundation and although they get donations from various corporations, that doesn't mean it'll do their bidding. For starters, Linus is too independently minded. Remember the finger he gave to nVidia? Then there's the "threat" (for want of a better word) of forking the kernel to keep such a patch out and thus non-systemd distro's alive. And IIRC Linus brought the entire kernel code (or at least his contributions, which are the core of the matter) under the GPLv3, which has a lot more restrictions on claiming IP for it by 3rd parties.
No, I'm not worried about Torvalds getting his arm up corporate bums. He's a geek and coder, not a career-technologist
Technically you're quite correct, but in the real world those paying for everything are always assumed to have ultimate control.
Not so long ago, Linux Foundation was writing about it's love of MS (one of the biggest) donors - and you have corporate reps sitting on the LF board of directors, etc.
While he's "independently minded" he also had to tone down his behaviour and introduce a CoC.
The kernel is GPL2. Torvalds alone can't change that and it's mostly developers on the payroll of the large companies who contribute to Linux signing off most commits these days.
#202 Re: Off-topic » HyperbolaBSD Roadmap relevance to Devuan » 2020-05-24 15:39:43
What do you think about following OpenBSD criticism?
Many have agendas and usually those who blog about how crap or deficient something is or how another OS somehow got their first when it comes to security features sporting catchy acronyms, all while remaining mostly anonymous, they usually fall into that category. They have picked apart a single facet of a project/product, focusing only on that, igoring all other aspects - only to suit a very specific agenda. They write blogs - criticising others' work, instead of patches...
#203 Re: News & Announcements » Bound to happen ... » 2020-04-07 18:22:05
I just wrote some lines elsewhere about backdoors and dataleaks in phone apps and that I think that 99.674352% of the users care more about having always the newest and flashy toys than for their privacy and security.
Those are the "consumers"... there was a time when "Linux" was aimed at a different kind of user and indeed worked on by a different kind of hacker, rather than a "developer" on the payroll of some fortune 500 corporation.
Systemd is for this type of users.
And they are many.
Windows is for that type of user and systemd is merely following the same path of adding more and more feature creep, complexity and attack surface, with zero regard for the things they simply don't care about and which don't fit the business ambitions of IBM/Red Hat. As with gnome project, as far as systemd project is concerned, users are there as guinea pigs and to be spoonfed, restricted and steered - users in fact have sown the seeds of their own destruction over the last two decades, by simply accepting crap and "automagic" solutions from those who cater to laziness and ineptitude. If someone is making it easy for you and the OS is "free", start questioning it.
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