Doesn’t take much to get death threats on the Internet, unfortunately. He probably would have received less of them with a better attitude, though. He wasn’t full-on Ulrich Drepper, but still pretty divisive.

It also didn’t help that Poettering isn’t particularly popular on a personal level. I think there would have been a lot less drama if he had better people skills.

Yeah, that’s what I was implying, just didn’t want to write a whole novel about it.

Using a file system is much less bad than dynamically allocating memory, at least as long as you keep a predefined set of files.

I have just the thing for you! Ever heard of binary XML?

Bottom right uses Enlightenment. Bottom left made his own tiling window manager which turned out exactly like the other tiling window managers.