2014/10/14 4:35 "Jonathan Dowland" <j...@debian.org>: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now? > > I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity > or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a lot of FUD, both > about systemd and what Debian has agreed to do. In other words I don't see an > avalanche, nor the tip of an iceberg.
Step 1: Somebody raises a valid problem, but doesn't have a whitepaper and list of bugs that will happen. Step 2: Somebody notices, very publicly, that there is no whitepaper, and that the person raising the issue is not clairvoyant. (We really want that list of bugs, of course.) Step 3: Somebody notices that the complaint can be conflated with a non-issue, and implicitly advises everyone to do so. Step 4: Somebody tries to point out that conflating problems with non-issues is not a good idea. Step 5: A chorus of boos rises aganst the whole thread, because there is no whitepaper, and no clairvoyance, and besides, it looks "just like this non-issue". Presto: All dissent is fud. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.
