> And that guy proved all the haters right by going to work for Microsoft: it's the ultimate fuck you to people who believed in Linux since the beginning.

I'm sure Lennart was thinking about maximizing tribal offense while evaluating his stable employment options in the midst of RedHat's obvious decline.

The list of employers for a full-time upstream systemd maintainer at a competitive salary is rather short. And none of them are particularly attractive in terms of how dirty you'll feel having their logo on your paychecks.