https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft
Hi all. While parousing reddit, I came across this recent news that systemd creator, Lennart Poettering, has left Redhat to join Microsoft. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this, and if you do, could you please share them?
I personally take everything coming out of Redhat with a grain of salt as I have a general dislike of corporatism, while acknowledging that Linux wouldn't be where it is today without Redhat. Systemd, on the other hand, I am not a fan of because I think it is unnecessarily monolithic, uses binary logs, and has had suspicious developer choices made in the past. This is not mentioning the politics around its sudden pervasive rise to prominence amongst nearly all Linux distributions.
Poettering leaving Redhat for Microsoft comes as little surprise to me, but it does make me even more suspicious and distrustful of the systemd developers. Of course, I have a general dislike for Microsoft for similar reasons to Redhat (albeit more intensified when it comes to Microsoft given its nefarious history).
What do you think of Poettering's recent change of employment?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Open source is the future, and even large and wealthy corporations nowadays invest into open source projects (as AMD invested in Vulkan, for example). Clinging to proprietary model of making revenue, Microsoft already falls behind, and, I suppose, they try to catch up by adopting this or that from open source world (for example, WSL). Microsoft employees are already writing code to the linux kernel, and taming a big shot from FOSS developers team is a part of this strategy, as I get it.
Regarding Mr. Poettering, it's his life and his decisions, but I have a suspicion that he bought a ticket to Titanic.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4270.msg27501/topicseen.html#msg27501
The enemy has discovered himself!
It was only a matter of time before Lennart "I hate Ctrl-C" Pottering discovered that his goal was basically to just re-implement Windows on top of the Linux kernel. He has practically always been a Windows developer. Now it's official.
Wonder what kind of spyware if any Poettering would code up for the big boys at M$?