On Sun, Feb 3, 2019, 04:04 <to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 06:34:33PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard composed on 2019-02-02 22:01 (UTC): > > > > > Felix Miata: > > > > >> Indeed. It's what I had in mind when I responded. I'll give one guess > > >> where it came from..... Time's up. Yes, systemd [...] > > > > This is quite wrong. Neither systemd nor Lennart Poettering imposed > > > such a notion. The RedHat people had the idea of moving the X server > to > > > |tty1| in 2008 [...] > > > The devil is in the details. This was around 10 years ago and I was > writing from fuzzy memory. Is > > it really wrong in an overall sense when you do not omit from the quote > all that I wrote, in > > particular this part?: > > No but it is kinda wrong in a more diffuse sense: depicting > Lennart Poettering as the Devil Incarnate with half-facts just > adds a lot of noise to a discussion which should be carried > with a cool head and lots of good will towards each other. > > Personally I don't like systemd and have /my/ good reasons to > avoid it, but hey, Lennart is writing free software after all, > so I'm thankful for that. > > /And/ when you're critizicing things, do make an effort to get > facts right. And try to be fair in your critique: there's often > a human being at the other end. Otherwise we end up being > Facebook or 4chan. > > Now getting off my soapbox. Next, please :-) > > Cheers > -- tomás >
Depicting Lennart Poettering as the Devil Incarnate would definitely unfair to the Devil Incarnate.
