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> For Engineering examples, well, see the controversy around anything by Poettering (Systemd, PulseAudio, etc., etc.).

I love how you can’t get any sense out of them.

“So, you can see that software Y is almost unmaintainable in practice due to no maintainers wanting to work on ancient codebases?”

Yes.

“And you won’t maintain them?”

Yes.

“And you will not pay someone to maintain them for you?”

Yes.

“But you will staunchly fight the suitable FOSS alternative?”

Yes.

“Even if it means a constant relative decline in performance and options, not to mention evermore terrible workarounds?”

Yes.

Makes my head spin.




Multiple alternative to systemd are actively maintained.




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