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Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism (itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently.

The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributing CI/CD pipelines to various FOSS projects.

But a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight, along with a wave of intense debate.

At the center of the controversy is a seemingly simple addition Dylan made: an optional birthDate field in systemd’s user database.

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[–] Heyla@quokk.au -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He has nothing to defend

The damage is done

He's a collaborator; we don't want parasites like him

In free software, there is FREEDOM

I didn't switch to Linux to end up under the thumb of Microsoft's henchmen and some random government

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

Lol.

The free part is you are free to remove the commit and build it yourself. Doofus.