On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut]
> > ROFLMAO, > > Here's the problem, Nate. With any other software vendor, we'd > instantly and doubtlessly assume it an April Fools Joke. But this is > systemd we're talking about, and the first time I heard that it had a 2 > way link to Gnome I thought "This must be an April Fools Joke", but it > wasn't. Whether now or later, I fully expect the systemd guys to make > their own kernel, and do it with a non-copyleft license. > That one seems to be a well-conceived (yet premature) April's fool, but in any case nobody can put the Linux kernel under a non-copyletf license, and distribute it :) Actually, nobody can put the Linux kernel exclusively under a license a single bit more restrictive that the GPLv2 in terms of the rights granted to the recipient, and this is just due to the fact that the Linux kernel *is* under GPLv2 ;) Anyway, this little (disgusting) joke is revealing that some users that are currently "tolerating" the systemd-nonsense would be quite upset if the systemd-nonsense guys would decide to take the Linux kernel aboard (something that I personally think they don't have neither the experience nor the skills to do, but still...). I personally find hilarious that most of the people out there are still convinced that the systemd-nonsense is just a replacement for sysv-init, while it should be clear by now that it is already becoming a pervasive cancer... HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng