I am?

Or did you mean the parent to my post?

I'm sure that no one tried to take out a hit on him either.

Welcome to the internet, where stupid people say stupid shit, and, protip: not all of it is actually true.

If by "some pushback" you mean "was utterly unusable for at least 4 years", then that part is at least true. Of course systemd has more pushback: it's the same sort of badly written, badly designed garbage that's injecting itself into the bootup process rather than being just a user-facing mess that was trivial to remove.

Some of us have lives that include being paid to take care of Linux servers, which this crap makes significantly more difficult.

If, after said re-evaluation, you've come to that conclusion, then that's fine. You can be content with the fact that your position is sound and the people who disagree have no rational grounds for it, and are just assholes.

When you skip that re-evaluation step, stick your fingers in your ears, yell "la la la" really hard, and then cry because people are "being mean to you" while refusing to acknowledge that it's because they don't want your ill-considered, over-engineered crap making their lives difficult for the next decade, then that makes you an asshole.

Nowhere did GP say anything about whether or not LP deserved the abuse. He offered counterexamples to GGP's assertion that LP writes "great software," which has had plenty of objective explanations as to its flaws. He said nothing about the person himself.

Then who does it assume is receiving the envelope?

While there's something to be said for angry make-up sex, maybe you ought to calm down a bit before taking care of business. You could hurt yourself, lad.

It's been a while since I read it, but I think it might have been Perseus.

Ubuntu is actually a very poor example, since it's one of the oldest offenders of just the sort of thing the guy's complaining about: Things like resolvconf, for example, have no place on a server (It's for helping the machine transition between nameservers when it changes networks) but it still installs on every -server install (at least as of 12.04)

Maybe if you're a non-sentient animal rather than an adult human being.

Those would fall under "managing basic day-to-day" responsibilities." That seems pretty clear from context...

That was kind of my point: an adult who can't manage her basic day-to-day responsibilities isn't particularly "mentally or emotionally stable."

A grown woman who can't be bothered to learn how to manage her household budget or maintain her car comes across as the most "well adjusted and normal." That's even sadder than the parade-o-parodies that makes up the rest of the cast...

And don't give me any of that "plight of the economically disadvantaged" stuff as a crap excuse . She can afford the bog-standard closet full of double-hex-digit pairs of shoes and "girls' shopping trips" and MMOGs (because they realized that there was a stereotype they hadn't played for cheap laughs yet).

Have none of these people spent even a week on the administration side, FFS? Change "an attacker" to "a malfunctioning process" and, all of a sudden, you want it to be recoverable so you can figure out WTF went wrong so you can fix it.

Well, it depends on how pedantic one wants to be (and this is slashdot, after all.:))

BSD is Unix, but not UNIX(TM). That is, it has the provenance, but not the corporate blessing. Feeling that the latter would confer any value is probably a litmus test of some sort...

Your other two examples are duly solemnized carriers of the brand name, however. ;)