No he isn't. He is right, too.

We need a special big stick to slap morons like RackinFrackin for ignorant comments like the one above . What's worse, he is "correcting" someone who knows better than him.

Yes, you (almost always) do NOT want to throw exceptions on division by zero. Doing otherwise resulted in billion-dollar explosion of Arian 5 rocket.

Yep, well, it simiply does not mean that your code is wrong. There are valid reasons to divide by zero.

Oh my god, this whole discussion is so misguided it hurts my eyes to look at. Why don't you people go educate yourself about floating-point arithmetics? IEEE754 standard was designed by top-notch numerical expert and YOU IGNORE IT AT YOUR AND YOUR USERS' PERIL.

And yeah, division of nonzero by +zero must give Inf, and there are actual useful numerical algorithms that make use of that.

More to the point, it's unfair to Microsoft's sales

Systemd crowd is working hard to take away the option of using non-sytemd tools. And by the way, "write your own" is not an acceptable answer. No one can write every tool he needs to use the system.

So, you can not read, too. Why I am not surprised?

If the "community" is worse off because of more freedom, then may be that community isn't so great and I for one don't care about such community at all.

You are changing the subject. "The whole initscripts mess" may or may not work outside the init infrastructure. But each individual script will, which is precisely the point. On the other hand, none of systemd components will work outside systemd. So please stop your shilling.

Aaand that is simply false. Why systemd shills won't just stop lying, I wonder?

It's pretty misleading to state as fact that BSD license, which is more permissive than GPL, "pushes them into forking".

Try "all of them"

Well, no it isn't. Those "small executables" can not function outside the systemd infrastructure. Moreover, systemd people keep trying to expand the range of software that will not build on non-systemd platforms. Please stop your shilling.

Yes, there is. It's called "fiduciary duty". Look it up some day, sunshine.