Poettering might not be the best leader or the best team player, but I don't think pointing at Linus for this is off-limits. Yes, the internet is full or anonymous idiots and that's not Linus' fault. But as leader of the community, the tone he sets is certainly not a good example, all the contrary, many will feel empowered to be assholes to other community members.
Ugh more linux politics. Who cares if he blocked you. Get over it. Move on, write code.
This isn't about the software Poettering wrote, but instead it's about how he has a chance here to reflect on how the community responds.
It's terrible that he was trolled with death threats. I won't feed the trolls.
Okay, so because Lennart Poettering blocked some dude on a social network for ranting about how terrible systemd is, Poettering deserves death threats and it's all his own fault. Got it.
All this post really says is "maybe the way Poettering is being treated is completely unacceptable, sure, but have you considered that he wrote systemd?? Isn't that more important??"
I feel like the nice here should be in quotes.
I love how the first response is of the "he deserved it because he created systemd which I don't like" type.
I seriously never expected anyone to ever think that someone deserves personal abuse and insults for writing a piece of software.