Interesting assessment. Given that MS, Yahoo, and Myspace all were shown to be colossal laggards when it came to adapting to new markets and instead spent their lives milking a cash cow till nothing was left I would say quite the opposite.

That is in a great part Google's strategy and has been since its birth. Yes it was a search engine at heart but they have always been the type of company which allows employees the flexibility to develop their own projects. The side effect of that is they may dump projects what appears to be randomly and change things often, but the major upside is that it is precisely this model that makes them flexible and adaptable.

I love watching people say Google is on its way down, by all accounts it the only logical way of justifying that statement is that they are currently further up than they've ever been.

There's a simple reason for this: Debian is not a democracy. I don't know where people get these silly ideas. It's a project run by a few core maintainers who make all the decisions. Linux on the whole is about choice, choice of which distribution you run, and choice of how to configure that distribution within its provided parameters.

The only thing new here is that suddenly its a parameter you actually care about. Nothing else has changed in the way systems are run.

Don't like it? Why not support one of the forks?

I don't cry about this. Too many programs out there assume that the only scenario for them is a perfectly and ordered shutdown, and then if something happens such as lockups, system crashes, or power outages there is suddenly as massive amount of data lost or corrupted. Maybe this will force some people to actually write their software in a more tolerant way.

What makes you think that any open source project is democratic?

I can't remember where but I distinctly remember reading that systemd does NOT provide the fastest boot times. Faster than sysvinit in many scenarios, but not faster than some other parallel startup setups.

But then really fast boot times was not at all the point. It was more of a side effect of being an event based init system rather than a linear list of scripts executed in order. In fact the speed of boot is not mentioned on the project page, and even Poettering's blog only mentions that it's faster than Upstart in Fedora 17 and only due to one specific reason.

Oh is that all it takes? Okay then: SYSTEMD SUX. Now where's my +5 insightful?

And you don't? How do you ever have a hope of finding a job in IT? Next you're going to tell me you don't have 3 years experience as a Windows 10 admin. Maybe this industry just isn't for you.

Yep, along with all the other problem the outdated init system presents that we have spent years and years patching and adding helper programs to work around.

Indeed, he was a true monster and deserves to be vilified. We should start a kickstarter to buy pitchforks for all. I'll organise a press release.

This post is authorised by the NSA, TSA, FBI, CIA, US Government, NATO, EU, UN, Allied governments of the USA, and enemy governments of the USA.

I propose an even funnier idea, just take a random div element from each startup's site and mash them together.

It's a Medium article. I think if you read it in detail you'll probably find they made up some new physics anyway.

Horseshit. Despite what you think about ripping off a head and putting it on another body there are experimental and high risk medical procedures performed on almost daily basis, and people die from them quite regularly.

The only thing that's out of the ordinary here is the news coverage because we're actually swapping over an entire body. From a medical point of view it's no different to other new and unproven treatments.

No. I do however think you fail at reading comprehension.

China's censorship via the firewall is as optional to citizens with internet as sitting down and only watching Fox News is optional to Americans. Everyone can get around the firewall if they chose, and pretty much most educated people do get around it. Know how I accessed all my Google services while I was over there? I asked the receptionist at work. She told me which program to find and where to find it. Then I even had her install it because I couldn't speak Chinese which made finding the download button hard.

If that's what you got out of reading my post it makes me very sad for the American education system.

That's not a "yeah, except..." statement

I thought it was common knowledge that their perception IS and always has been out of touch with reality.
Music sales went down when they hammered Napster.
Music sales went down when they started suing customers.

Yet here we are and the attacks continue.

I didn't say it made sense, I just said that the publishers and producers want this.

Wow. I never met someone who actually uses Linux From Scratch.