On 2024-06-27 11:02, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Tom via Dng - 27.06.24, 08:37:05 CEST:
>> On 27 Jun 2024, at 13:20, Simon Walter <simon@???> wrote:
>>> Or maybe you have evidence of a sellout? Who on the deb tech committee
>>> got paid under the table?
>>
>> Debian developer and systemd package maintainer Luca Boccassi works for
>> Microsoft, if that’s what you were asking about?

That's an interesting detail, but...

>
> This is not really an answer to Simon's question.
>
> I doubt that anyone from the Technical Committee got paid for voting for
> Systemd.
>
> It think it is important to be accurate. Accusations without evidence are
> not helping the cause of furthering alternative init systems. Instead they
> give a good attack surface for people criticizing the Systemd critics.
>

this is exactly my concern. We must assume no sublime intention, and ask
for logical reasoning. When no logical reasons are given, we must assume
stupidity (Hanlon's razor). After all, it's more generous that the other
options.

At some point, we must start labeling the people who have proven
themselves to be stupid and who do not apologize or make any revision
for their stupidity. So... Luca Boccassi is stupid. Lennart Pöttering
(does his whole family spell their name without umlauts?) is stupid. Who
else would like to go on my list?