Re: (Really) Free Software future

[Svante Signell]

On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 11:47 +0200, František Kučera wrote:
> Dne 15. 10. 19 v 21:56 Svante Signell napsal(a):
> > As you know there is
> > only one _upstream_ of systemd and that upstream is a company.
> > Systemd software is developed by that company, and as you also know
> > is that contributions, patches and bug reports coming from outside
> > that company are frown upon. People reporting issues are even met
> > with hostility.
> 
> I agree that systemd has quality/complexity issues, but it is not
> vendor lock-in. It is free software so you can fork it – and if your
> fork would be better, distributions would use it and Red Hat would
> stay alone with their original systemd.

In your dreams. How can you compete with a company having full-time
software developers with your own free time??
It is a vendor lock-in. Period!

> Free software does not mean that every patch must be accepted. If it
> would accept everything, it would be total mess with many
> unintentional or even intentional bugs and flaws. It is the
> author/maintainer of given project, who is responsible for the
> quality. And if author's view diverges too much from the user's view,
> it is time to fork.

Have you ever followed any of the bug reports/feature requests/patches
sent to upstream of systemd. If not, please do some reading before you
reply to this mail, thanks!

In summary, let's agree that we disagree!