<story><title>PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpush</author><text>My god the comments in this thread are terrible. How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp;amp; gratis!) software they don&amp;#x27;t like. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s mystifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traverseda</author><text>When his employer uses politics to try to coerce others into using that &amp;quot;free &amp;amp; gratis&amp;quot; software it can leave a bit of a bitter taste in your mouth.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not that something like pulseaudio is bad so we can just ignore it, it&amp;#x27;s that pulseaudio is bad because because redhat funds a lot of gnome stuff gnome won&amp;#x27;t really work unless you use pulseaudio, and since you use gnome you now &lt;i&gt;have to&lt;/i&gt; use systemd. If pulseaudio just existed in a vacuum I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone would have an issue with it. If it wasn&amp;#x27;t bundled into a giant ecosystem it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so bad, and if the redhat contributors involved cared more about non-redhat stakeholders I don&amp;#x27;t think people would have nearly as much ire.&lt;p&gt;But honestly writing &amp;quot;free &amp;amp; gratis&amp;quot; software that kind of sucks, and that forces you to use other sucky software, well I&amp;#x27;m honestly not sure it&amp;#x27;s better than nothing. If it didn&amp;#x27;t exist I think some other solution would eventually come into being, and it might very well be a better solution. Sure it might not happen as quickly, but personally I&amp;#x27;m alright with that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not charity, it&amp;#x27;s not nobility, it&amp;#x27;s just redhat building a moat around their core business.</text></comment>
<story><title>PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpush</author><text>My god the comments in this thread are terrible. How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp;amp; gratis!) software they don&amp;#x27;t like. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s mystifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ofdw</author><text>&amp;gt;How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp;amp; gratis!) software they don&amp;#x27;t like. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s mystifying.&lt;p&gt;Because he and his orbiters were extraordinarily arrogant and condescending about their software.  And let&amp;#x27;s not forget that while it&amp;#x27;s pretty good now, in the early days systemd was not very good at all.  Because things like GNOME 3 decided to make systemd a hard dependency, pretty soon it became nearly impossible to avoid using the entire systemd stack even though it was nominally modular.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just that he wrote $thing that someone didn&amp;#x27;t like.  It&amp;#x27;s that $thing got shoved down everyone&amp;#x27;s throats at a time when $thing didn&amp;#x27;t work very well, and then when people rightfully objected, they were belittled by Poettering and his fan base.</text></comment>