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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    You can look up Lennart Poettering yourself, but he was also involved in PulseAudio which if you learned Linux in the 00's might give you pause, and has had some minor beef with Linus Torvalds before. His Wikipedia page has something like 5 paragraphs for controversies and 2 for his actual career.

    I think focusing on him is a mistake, but I also understand people who were still mad about PulseAudio latching on to him if they also had issues with Systemd. This article goes into some of it, but I can't vouch fully for its accuracy. I will say that the dates of 2008 for PulseAudio's release and 2012ish for when it became actually fairly functional lines up pretty roughly with my own memory, and systemd was released in 2010 and adopted by Arch and Debian in early 2012, so PulseAudio was barely fixed before the same developer started pushing Systemd, and succeeded in getting the normally very conservative Debian developers on board.

    https://linuxreviews.org/Lennart_Poettering#So_Much_Drama

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

    that is such a great article. I can practically taste the edit warring.