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diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours agoOnly partially user-centric decisions because the @someRandomOEM.com and @redhat.com people will send drivers with no documentation to go with it due to NDAs. Also only partially user-centric decisions because if someone is backed by a company, their solution will be pushed faster.
People on free software adjacent forums (probably originated on linux {.} org {.} ru?) thought of a standard unit of measurement for how much pedantic force a person is able to apply. It is called “1 Poettering”, named after Lennart “Harry” Poettering. Values greater than 1 have not been observed; it is often assumed to be the highest constant similar to the speed of light. Here’s a table from (my very subjective) consensus:
- Lennart “Harry” Poettering - 1 (the system deez nuts guy)
- Mark “Shuttlecock” Shuttleworth - .9 (the Canonical guy)
- Hans Reiser - .7 (ReiserFS)
- Richard Stallman - .6 (GNU)
- Linus Torvalds - .5 (Linux)
- Theo De Raadt - .2 (OpenBSD)
Maintainers of random projects that everyone takes for given are <=.1 until they riot when it becomes .6 temporarily.