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Author: Aitor
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] I wrote IBM
Hi Steve,

El 29/9/19 a las 2:32, Steve Litt escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wrote IBM asking them to reconsider systemd, given that IBM's
> business model is different from the old Red Hat's.
>
> It took me 3.5 hours: 2 hours to find valid addresses of Todd Moore,
> VP IBM Open Technologies and Virginia M. Rometty, Chairman, President
> and CEO of IBM. It then took me 1.5 hours to curate my letter down to 1
> page of 12pt type. My letter was to Moore, CC to Rometty.
>
> Given the fact that this letter writing campaign involves more than
> just people in Devuan, and the negative reaction some Devuaners had to
> this project, I will be serving as the central information point of the
> letter writing point, accumulating and refining contact information and
> reporting the successes and failures of writers.
>
> I encourage all of you to write IBM. If I'm right and it helps, this
> would prevent future incompatibilities requiring significant increases
> in Devuan development effort, just to stay even. If I'm wrong, you lose
> a couple hours writing a letter. The web page for this letter writing
> campaign is as follows:
>
> http://troubleshooters.com/ibm_systemd/
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT


It would not be out of context to discuss about dbus...

I can't understand neither the dependency of most of the network
managers on dbus,
nor the dependency of the (alsa | pulseaudio) controls on it.

Cheers,

Aitor.