Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Lennard Poettering joined Microsoft Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:52:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87pmiamaeh.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <87k08kpn27.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87y1wznvqu.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2eaa62cc55298bbc83591bbdb61430a5"; logging-data="2225396"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+oXbvNk/YwInTLfneHaLdD" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2xz6+emnAAE/LJpfkgDYbS7OcDI= sha1:kSjE18sKlyoybC1K+KRAZ9VzKlE= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35035 On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 02:05:30 +0200, Joerg Lorenz wrote: > > Am 12.07.22 um 00:13 schrieb Andreas Kohlbach: >> >> There must be a reason to hire him other than he's probably a very good >> software engineer. > > But he won't change the world. Even not the IT-world. He cause enough turmoil that I would call it a change. He (almost singlehandedly) changed Linux, how it boots and other important things by absorbing older procedures with systemd. > It is funny to see how this fact triggers tons of speculation. Unfortunately I also only find speculations for a possible reason. Most are comments at Shashdot, Reddit and other "social media". We might never know. -- Andreas