Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.
Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.
I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.
If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.
No one is forcing you to use a distro that uses systemd
Threats against a developer, no matter whether he’s a chud or not; is unacceptable, unhinged behavior. You have a remedy that isn’t harassment. Just don’t use his software
They absolutely forced the changes upon us.
You are free to switch distros
they are also free to not implement spyware on theirs.