Linux's strength is that is is Unix.

Or are you trying to provide an existence proof of Henry Spencer's famous saying: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it - poorly."?

No, not at all. In this case, though, it's not going in because of the animosity of one developer to all things Google. He didn't even bother to see what the change was about before shooting it down in flames.

The OS people are quite often right. Not this time, though.

Do you honestly think your vocal opposition would not stand in the way of another developer deciding to get it in?

Of course, you ignore the multitude of technical arguments against it, centering on its monolithic nature and its propensity to devour everything in its path.

I don't have a lot of strong feelings about systemd, but it does strike me as fundamentally failing to understand Unix.

"TSYNC is a new sandboxing flag for seccomp that was recently added to the Linux kernel." -- from the description of the change to Chromium

Sounds like more browsers should be using it.

Better attention to its users than Debian is a low bar to clear. I'll agree that Ubuntu has its own problems in that area.

You say that as though it's a bad thing.

To each his own.

However, for folks who want their OS to actually pay attention to their needs, it's yet another nail in Debian's coffin.

Because it's yet another reason not to use them.

Actually, I use Linux Mint and OS X. Yes, I know Mint's an indirect Debian derivative, but 1) they derive directly from Ubuntu, which pays better attention to users, and 2) they don't call it GNU/Linux.

And Google has all of my details anyway; I switched from an iPhone to Android this last upgrade (a second-gen Moto X) because it integrates better with the stuff I was already using: Gmail, Google Voice, Google Calendar...

You know what? I'm not paranoid about Google. They don't care about me individually, and I opt out of their ad targeting. The rest I just don't care about.

Not that I was going to use a system that kowtows to RMS by calling itself GNU/Linux anyway, but the OS is there to support the software I use, and I use Chrome on Linux. If the OS won't support it, then I won't use it.

Your 80mm mortar may have the edge in range, and you may be a trained soldier, but you obviously haven't learned the lessons of asymmetric warfare...

...because people don't like the idea of a language that turns something they should be doing anyway, code indentation, into a syntactic requirement.

Short-sighted of them

No, they do not have the right to take your work and claim it for their own. That right is reserved exclusively to you by the terms of the BSD license. That's what makes the Stallmanite claim that "they can take your work private" a bald-faced lie.

As for not understanding true freedom, get back to me when you have a right to keep and bear arms.

It's not freedom, because others are not free to do something that pisses you off but does not actually harm you. And no, having your code extended by others does not harm you. You have no right to their work.

It's only a shell of freedom. Then again, I long ago gave up on the idea that Europeans could actually understand true freedom...