31 May
2024
31 May
'24
5:36 p.m.
On 5/31/24 12:01 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
My point for replying was he does not come from a Windows background and
he is familiar with free/libre culture.
I agree with somebody else who posted the author should have done some
fact checking and verifying before posting. Which is why I mentioned in
my original post I thought the quality of the article was below the
standards of lwn.net. Usually the fact-checking standards at lwn.net are
high. I think the article is below Brockmeier's standards too as he has
been writing online for many years. If the link is current and he is an
employee at RedHat, then I am further disappointed by the theme of the
article.
I'm not getting into a poop throwing contest about his job or who he is
as a person. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but that
he and the lwn.net editor simply screwed up with this article.
On 5/31/24
2:05 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
You know that SuSE was once called "The Nürnberger Windows" ? IIRC he's now
at RedHat - https://www.redhat.com/en/authors/joe-brockmeier - and his job is to sell
GUIs. I don't consider RedHat as anything but a company. "shiny KDE6" vs "retro
desktop". He does not like it. And he comes from a windows background, where
there's no border between desktop and OS.
The author, Joe Brockmeier, has been around free/libre circles for a
couple of decades. Search for articles written by him from long ago. I
think he also once was a community coordinator, I think for Suse.