Shit LWN Says

Anybody who suggests that there is ANY distinction between 1024 ports should be immediately executed.

Apple did not ditch X11.

Regarding the team pushing it, it's pretty clear that the word "cabal" can be justly applied.

Unfortunately tk doesn't suppor HiDPI at all.

This is horrible. This was solved almost 30 years ago with "Display Postscript".

coddling everyone breeds a civilisation of babies. And tip-toeing around *potential* offence - WHEN there is no actual intention - is racist.

How dare they insinuate that these animals will tolerate such abuse?

Differentiation should be user-visible.

These incidents point to a common problem in Linux land. We have allowed immigrants commit access to key parts of our cultural heritage before we assimilated them to our ways. Unless we find a way to reverse this trend we are soon going to find ourselves strangers in our own land, doing things the Windows Way because they fled Windows and remade Linux in it's image due to their superior numbers.

Why do they work for free to enrich a specific company and improve a relatively obscure commercial distribution, rather than contributing to an open project like Debian?

DRM does not exist, and even if it did exist it would not prevent me from using a PS4 as a weapon (blunt force trauma to the head).

The downside to systemd is that a malignant monolith inhibits progress by making it harder to develop newer and better tools.

The fundamental question of kdbus is how to convert monolithic linux kernel to a microkernel architecture.

On the other hand, Stallman's goals (having the best compiler technology be foverer a copylefted one) is perhaps achievable by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang relicensed to GPLv3 with continuous merging of Apple's work, and make that fork far superior to Apple's version.