I've only absorbed bits and pieces of the story, but allegedly there's an age verification push happening on Linux? What's the full story here?

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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lennart Poettering left Microsoft, not systemd

And they left for PR reasons, to literally appear not evil and to "build trust"

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    I've never followed the people or the politics - I just started using systemd when it appeared in whatever disto I was using at the time and liked it. I'm trying to catch up now because I have reservations about using projects that incorporate AI (and I'm learning this may be impossible to avoid) and I most certainly won't use anything that implements age verification. (The irony of typing this on a device that has age verification via my credit card hurts)

    I accept that Microsoft had significant influence over systemd when Poettering worked there, but I don't understand how they do now.

    I also understand that Poettering likes Windows, and wants to make Linux more like Windows. That's not the same as Microsoft controlling systemd.

    Are you saying that Amutable is just a front for Microsoft?

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