Le 14/04/2020 à 15:49, Ottavio Caruso a écrit :
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:06, Oddmund G. wrote:
Since the ongoing corporate takeover of GNU+Linux,
GNU, whether we like them or not, have not been and will not be taken
over by "corporate", as long as Stallman is alive.
As for Linux, it is not an OS but just a kernel. The only distros that
has been taken over by "corporate" are Red Hat (but it was annoyingly
corporate-friendly even before it was bought by IBM) and SuSE. The
remaining have not been taken over by
"corporate" if they wanted to.
Cheap digs don't usually get the facts right.
I know all this, Ottavio. I have been using GNU+Linux since 1994 after
several years with Ultrix/VMS/OpenVMS @DEC: Slackware in the beginning,
then Debian until the forced introduction of systemd and the rest of the
crap being considered as 'much better' and 'mandatory'.
Even FSF has swallowed this, because systemd is 'free software',
Trisquel being Ubuntu-based adopted it as if nothing had happened or
they probably thougfht they had no choice. Stallman pissed in his pants
and is not relevant any more.
Corporate takeovers does not happen overnight and there are some
resistance. 60-70 Linux 'distributions' are still using non-systemd
inits. The problem is that the 'big' core distributions are being
streamlined to be 'compatible' with 'New Linu$'. Micro$oft became a
member of the Linu$ Foundation almost four years ago. I strongly believe
that it was not for 'fun'...
Linux is doomed. Closer 'integration' of systemd, pulseaudio, wayland
++. with other system components will make it very difficult, if not
impossible to continue resisting and keeping up alternative GNU+Linux
development in the future. This was one of the reasons why I switched to
OpenBSD a couple of years ago. I tried it for a while by the end of the
'90s, but it wasn't adapted to what I was doing at that time, so I
switched back to Debian.
Now I am retired and it is absolutely perfect! Thank you Theo & all the
other guys & girls keeping it alive and kickin'!
Cheers,
Oddmund
