Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Since programming is done by people, who often have a motive behind
> their actions, the question as to why this is happening is not
> technical, but sociological. The new 'winds of change' that are
> affecting free unix like OSs like Linux, are powered by a deep belief
> that users are often unwilling to make the least of efforts to
> understand what goes inside their computers. Furthermore, 'modern'
> computer users are those who use a computer for surfing the net, write
> emails, watch youtube, listen to music, and maybe, to sometimes use a
> wordprocessor to write a short document.

Okay, so society as a whole wants the next shiny app that'll eat their
cell phone's battery and suck away their money from microtransactions.

I don't see that as a compelling reason for systemd. Sure, maybe
something to replace sysvinit (or not, if that's your preferred init
system), but definitely not "The One Rin^H^H^H Init System" that systemd
is making itself.

> The technical weirdo is left for 'gurus' who are often seen as people
> without a social life and sometimes even who have difficulty
> socialising.

Eh, it happens. But it also happens that one can be adept at both
computing, and socialiazing.


> Follow the money to understand why all this is happening. More users
> mean more customers, more customers mean more support, and finally
> more support means more gain.

"Customers" for an operating system that anyone can install for their
grandmother with nothing more than an internet connection, and a spare
USB key (or DVD)? Sure, RH has paid support, but "to gain wealth" is not
typically the main purpose of free software. Or at least I've never
"needed" to send money to the dev teams for whatever software they've
written that I now use. Not that I don't donate to dev teams either,
though I wish it could be more than just money.

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