poitr pogo <lepoitr@???> writes:

> On 2/25/16, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> (...)
>> Considering that shared objects and dynamic linking were originally a
>> MULTICS feature (dating back to about 1965) and introduced to UNIX(*)
>> with SunOS 4.0 in 1988, the best course of action to deal with people
>> who are so afraid of changes that they keep rejecting "useful new
>> features" for 51/ 28 years in a row is "roundly ignore them". Especially
>> if they claim to be 'modernizers' because the ancient technology they're
>> so wedded to is so seriously ancient that large groups of people
>> meanwhile forgot about that ...
>
> Is this some kind of pro systemd propaganda ? :D

I've purposely used the phrase to highlight that a large part of systemd
is really not 'modern' at all but about bringing back seriously ancient
stuff certain 'usual suspects', in particular, Microsoft/ Windows
never parted with. Eg, in this case, the idea that all code making up an
application has to be under the exclusive control of the guy who
designed the logo (intentional hyperbole) because all this 'code' is
seriously scary stuff and one better doesn't take any risks with that,
especially if this mean 'users' could change something (they're surely
not supposed to !!, eg, fix bugs in libraries).

After all, diskspace is not only cheap nowadays but paid for by someone
else and that someone else can surely by for decreased developer
uneasiness by having 150 broken copies of everything installed on his
machine. Conveniently, any security problems caused by that will also
only affect 'users'.

Heads, developer wins, tails, user loses.