Lennart Poettering Leaves Redhat for Microsoft

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PublicLewdness
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With Lennart Poettering now employed at Microsoft does anybody feel that it gives more reason to not trust SystemD seeing as a company such as Microsoft signs his cheques now and therefore may have a lot of influence on the project ? I have always been on the fence with SystemD. I agree that it does many things I disagree with on a philosophical level but on the practical level I have never had any major issues with it as a user while I have had tons of issues with non SystemD distros.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft

Parodper
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Joined: 05/01/2020

Not really. It is free software, so any malicious changes would be easily detected. Besides, Pottering is not the only systemd maintainer.

Also, Microsoft does not care about GNU/Linux on the desktop. They are not going to try to «destroy» something with a 3% market share.