197
submitted 2 weeks ago by Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.

Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.

I don't think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It'll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it'll discourage people from using Linux, and it'll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.

If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm glad to hear he's getting his shit fucked, maybe he'll roll back the commit.

EDIT : This fucker is lucky with the amount of hate he's getting, there's plenty of people who hate his guts over what he did, and didn't personally reach out to yell some sense into him

[-] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine seeing a bullshit fascist vaguely-worded and practically unenforceable law in a single state that doesn't go into affect for another year and immediately rolling over and swallowing the boot.

Same dude also vehemently defends Google's anti-sideloading bullshit, no surprise there.

Fuck this fascist.

this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
197 points (100.0% liked)

Linux

64538 readers
554 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS