The rise of systemd occurred in a top-down manner, which is the exact opposite of how traditional open source software gains acceptance and widespread usage
Wow. I never met someone who actually uses Linux From Scratch.
I think the big deal is how decisions are made: In the past, somebody would write a new software and people who liked or needed it would start to migrate to it. Then later it may become the default, but other software would still continue to work and be supported for a long time. Nowadays, a decision is made somewhere and changes are pushed to users who do not want it, while support for alternatives is dropped quickly. So in the end, I think it is a question of software freedom in a very real and practical sense.
The nature of how decisions are made haven't changed in the slightest. The only difference here is that some fundamental items have been changed over the years which were complex enough to draw a line through the maintenance of packages. As some Redhat maintainer many years ago posted, Linux is not about choice. In general your choice ends at the distribution you chose and from then on your choice becomes far more limited without having to maintain and resolve many issues. If the implementation of something is easy, choice is provided to the user. If the implementation is hard and would result in a lot of work for maintaining different streams then the choice is made for the user, and it's the user's choice to continue using the system given the choices which were made.
Ahhh the old fix something the maintainer should have fixed so that next time zfs gets a slight update my fix breaks and I go through the frustration yet again trick.
Editing an init script is never the solution to a problem unless you ARE the maintainer of the distribution. Your fix is just as likely to reoccur and result in a debugging session with init as it is with systemd.
Oh hate to double post but I have to say if your definition of arcane is "something I didn't grow up and become an expert in" then the argument falls flat on its face. Any UNIX admin should be perfectly comfortable with having to learn a few new commands. Especially since your idea of arcane is:
journalctl ---vs--- tail
journalctl -u apache.service ---vs--- tail
I do. The minimal standard Ubuntu Server release is simple, clean, CLI driven, and for all intents and purposes looks and acts no different than any other distribution that uses apt for package management.
Oh and getting things working is really well documented. Fixing complex problems is better left to the arch wiki, but for the basics of trying to do something on a server you're almost guaranteed to find an Ubuntu specific guide somewhere.
in like 6 months after daily use by myself and my alternate
Far more importantly in like 6 months when the LTS release comes out.
Never underestimate the reaction from an industry who perceives itself as under threat. Producers and publishers definitely DO want this.
However, what will kill it is that DVDs, streaming, and Blu-Ray is "good enough". If people realize that their UHD content only can play on PlayReady hardware using only PlayReady monitors, cables, and other items... they will give it the same treatment as they did DIVX players and just not bother to buy it.
In fact, it might even slow down PC sales (which are stagnant already) if some misguided, false rumor gets around that the latest DRM spies on you or lets malware on your system. There was a lot of FUD about Secure UEFI booting... just wait until people encounter hardware DRM and cannot play their new 4k content.
The same treatment as DivX players? You mean that everyone in the world now has a player that is capable of playing them?
Also I think you have a strange view of the minds of the general populace. The majority of Americans don't side with Snowden and don't give a shit about spying. It's a sad reality for those caring about content freedom. All your same things were said about Bluray players which promised the absolute earth DRM wise including the ability to nuke players from orbit in people's living room.
We all still bought them.
because anyone involved in an actual human head transplant surgery will need to lose their medical licenses and go to prison for a very long time
Since when does an attempt to save a life through transplants equate to losing medical licenses or prison?
Their people are locked behind their firewall and don't get to see any criticism the government doesn't want them to see.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's effectively no different in China than it is in the west. Yes there are people who are locked behind technology, just like there are Americans who only ever watch Fox News. Maybe it's representative of where in China I was staying, or the class of people who I worked with, but all of them had some form of service to get around the great firewall. Even if they don't at home or on their phone (I realised this when people constantly showed me stuff on Google Maps which is blocked) then if these people work for an international corporation they nearly always have some form of corporate VPN too.
The people are well and truly clued in on what their government is doing.
Well yes they are actually. Earthquakes are the result of underground movement due to stresses at faults overcoming the forces holding the ground in place. If you lubricate joints to reduce the forces holding them in place the net energy caused by underground movements remain the same, the only difference is the release is small and often vs large and rare.
this sounds to me like practicing medicine without a licence
The problem is that everytime someone does something that would make them guilty of that they are usually legally covered by a size 1 font disclaimer in the cover of the book or at the bottom of their website with the colour code #FEFEFE that says this is not a medical opinion and to seek a doctor.
Heck you should have seen the backlash against one of the stupid fuckwit paleo chefs in Australia by the medical profession. They had to move mountains to get Pete Evan's book withdrawn as it contains recipes potentially dangerous to newborns and they only did that by directly lobbying the publisher to stop working with him.
Honestly the sooner this organic foods/whole foods religion dies, the better.
Yes and no. It needs to stop being put on the insane pedestal that it currently sits on, but it definitely shouldn't die. There's stuff to be said about not doing the stupid shit we currently do, such as colour oranges orange to make them look more like oranges instead of the natural oranges that grow on trees. Or coat Apples in wax. Or load everything with ludicrous amounts of preservatives to that they last for 4 years.
It's like the global warming debate. People who thing that global warming isn't man made are typically caught suddenly off guard when I start giving them other reasons we should stop polluting the world like something as simple as making the city smell nicer.
You don't have a right to not catch diseases from infected people.
Actually you are very wrong about that. See the many cases where people were locked up because they knew they had diseases and spread them around by not taking basic precautions. Someone already linked you to Typoid Mary, but what about the constant cases of people being jailed for unsafe sex while knowingly carrying HIV.
We have a right not be infected due to stupidity / malicious intent; anti-vaxxers fall under both.
Indeed. That it's a penny pinching problem puts us in even more of an agreement.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
