Comment by overfeed

4 days ago

It's no coincidence that PulseAudio and Gnome are Pottering-authored/Pottering-adjacent software.

Anything with the Red Hat stink, these days. Which, yeah, a lot of that’s Poettering.

If they haven’t been executing a plan to make it extremely painful to maintain a distro that differs significantly from whatever Red Hat’s preferences and ways of operating are (so, making it harder to justify anything but “screw it, we’ll just use red hat, everyone else is just the same thing but with less ability to steer the direction of the OS”), damn the effects on UX, the traditional modular nature of Linux systems, and general open source ecosystem health… well, they’ve sure done a great job of it, so it’d be pretty crazy if that isn’t what they’ve been doing.

  • Latest venture of the ilk behind all that : device attestation for Linux (Amutable). Yes, they clearly have an agenda and are being quite successful at pushing it.

    • Also Wayland with its mobile OS restrictions model that is entirely inappropriate for a free software desktop.