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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] We need to speak up
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:55:57AM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
> On 2017-03-14 20:37, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> >Can somebody please make a list, that we can put our names on, of
> >people who left Debian because of systemd? And put the name Steve Litt
> >on it please.
> >
>
> There are plenty of sites where YOU could start a MEEETOOO petition to prove
> your point. But what is the point? Our freedoms are being eroded on all
> fronts - we are drowning in a tsunami of reversal of choice dictated by
> those in power be they Debian or corporations or government. Rather than
> piss in the wind, my response is to do as much as I can to resist in a
> meaningful way by supporting alternatives. I don't see that putting my
> (insignificant) name on a list of whiners as a productive action. It would
> just get laughed at and stomped on like ants by Paul Bunyan.
>
> >
> >. . . but remember that the Freedesktop/Redhat/SystemdCabal
> >consortium has the goal of eliminating systemd as a choice . . .
> >
>
> Ermmmm . . . not quite what you intended to say, I think.
>
> >
> >. . . and they still have the power to take our init systems away from us
> >. . .
> >
>
> How exactly will they do that? An executive order?


By mutating all the essential software to depend on systemd.
e coud resist, but desystemd-ing software takes effort, both to do it
and to maintain the results. If there are too many systemd-izers,
we will not be able to keep up.

-- hendrik

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