[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <unia4a$1o881$1 at dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:13:37 +0000, chrisq wrote:
>
>> On 1/8/24 02:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 00:31:33 +0000, chrisq wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No systemd either.
>>> 
>>> Shame. With all their smarts, they never thought to implement something
>>> as clever as that.
>> 
>> Clever ?, debatable. More like an impenetrable trainwreck.
>
>Remember, it became popular across a whole bunch of distros entirely 
>through its own merits, not because there was some dominant, faceless 
>MegaCorp pushing it on everybody.

Are you sure about that?  Are you absolutely sure it wasn't a matter of "We
have to do this because Red Hat is doing it and we don't want our distro to
be too different?"
--scott

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