On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 02:00:34 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 > Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > > >> Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >>> A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility > > >>> of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > > >>> > > >>> http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html > > >> What I really like about the blog is that, almost from the > > >> beginning, the author lets us know his agenda with words like > > >> "trolls". And, just to make his point with his non-cognizant > > >> readers, he quotes Gregory Smith as just another > > >> "anti-systemd-troll", instead of as a guy all of the anti-systemd > > >> people have repudiated and disavowed all alliance with. > > > Have all the anti-systemd people repudiated Gregory? Here is one who > > > embraces him as part of the fold: > > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg00287.html > > > > > > Gregory, please don't do this. It hurts the credibility of the > > > entire group who agrees with you 100% on the issues. There are > > > enough *facts* about systemd, Poettering, Sievers and Redhat to > > > logically and completely make your point. > > > > > > The group "agrees with you 100% ....". Does that look like > > > "repudiation" and "disavowed all alliance with"? > > > > > > It seems more like trying to get someone to toe the Party line. > > > > > > > > > > Just for the record, just because someone is a little over-the-top in > > his language, doesn't make him wrong. > > > > Miles Fidelman > > I guess that's what I get for /dev/null'ing Brian long before the > systemd thing ever started (my .procmailrc notes say "Rude boy Brian > who thinks he's funny"). Anyway, as Brian knows full well if he > researched my ancient advice to Gregory, about two days later I > publically repudiated Gregory.
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