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by nottorp 24 days ago
> I don’t see how Poettering is the villain here.

Poettering seems to be good at politics. Where politics means having his way.

Not so much at writing working code, or interoperability.

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>good at politics

A son of GDR diplomats, according to an old version of his Wikipedia page. That information seems to be memory-holed now. Now you only find that he grew up in South America without any hint of a reason.