[q66]

I generally just don't want to see anybody being attacked for the work they do; I'm fine with people criticizing RMS, since that's generally because of his views that deserve to be condemned, but I wish to see no hostility towards maintainers of GNU projects or systemd

the GNU codebases may have their issues (but not always; there are some very high quality ones), but that's still not a reason for personal attacks, and frequently the maintainers are just trying to do their best and don't deserve any of that shit

ideally I'd like to see an ecosystem where all the projects are represented, where the projects collaborate, adapt ideas from each other, and strive for portability and interoperability so that compatibility problems do not exist and so that users have the greatest freedom in terms of both hardware and software; but I guess that may be too much to ask

[LeFantome]

Amen to that and thank you for the response.

I do not really mean to criticize anybody myself. My venting is more about GNU advocates criticizing others, campaigning against collaboration, or trying to lay claim to vast swaths of software they did not write. Although I am very pro-Open Source, it also bothers me when too much abuse is heaped on commercial vendors that do contribute lots of code ( even code I don’t love ). At least, I prefer the complaining stayed technical.

Thank you again for your contributions. I hope I continue to enjoy your choices. Good luck either way.