[WastingMyTime89]

Am I the only one who finds that weird that the author of this piece purportedly a journalist relies on twitter and rumours rather than you know email or call Pottering to ask him what he is doing? Is Phoronix supposed to be taken seriously?

[jeshin]

Well the article does state:

>At first I thought they were jokes or just snarky remarks, but after a day of following up with folks, it actually turns out not to be a joke.

So who's to say he didn't? Twitter seems just to be where he first heard it

[WastingMyTime89]

I mean why is he following up with folks? It’s not like it’s extremely hard to get in touch with Poettering.

[zaphirplane]

His redhat email returns out of office err OOF

[bayindirh]

From my observations, Poettering is not a person who kindly answers his e-mails.

[WastingMyTime89]

Your observation strongly differs from mine then. Poettering has always been fairly reachable and is easy to communicate with. That might have changed following the torrent of abuse a minority of the Linux community threw at him. I hope it’s not the case.

[bayindirh]

I really would love to be proven wrong to be honest.

[the_biot]

Frankly no. I don't mean to denigrate, but Phoronix is generally not seen as all that great a source of good journalism. He did say he at least tried to confirm this news however.