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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:08:48 -0000 (UTC)
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 28/05/2025 17:22, Rich wrote:
>> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> The user matters.  The whole point of the OS, of all this 
>>> endeavour, is to serve the user, and allow the user to do what they 
>>> want.
>> 
>> Sadly, if one is Poettering or the Gnome team, the OS exists to 
>> force the user to do things the way "the team" wants them to do 
>> things.  That whole crew should have been run out of town on rails a 
>> very long time ago.
> 
> Poettering has found his true position in life: He now works for 
> Microsoft.

I always suspected he was a MS plant, even when he was not yet working 
for them.

The MS job was likely his reward for having done a good job at his 
assigned disruption task.