Insinuation? As a sw dev they don't have any agency over whether or by whom they get acquired. Their decision will be whether to leave if it's changing to the worse, and that's very much understandable (and arguably the ethical thing to do).

Do you mean like IBM takeover of RedHat?

Technical arguments pave the road to hell.

Well he is called faust…

That's a perfectly valid objection to this proposal. You only have to look at what happened to Hashicorp to see the risk.

How can anyone promise that? Will you promise to your current employer that you will never leave the job?

No, but I can promise to my current employer that me leaving my job won’t be a critical problem.

It’s less of an issue in the case of a normal job than in an open source project where often the commitment of particular founding individuals to the long-term future of the project is a big part of people’s decision to use or not use that tech in their solutions. Here, given that “Trusted computing” can potentially lock you out of devices you have bought, it’s important for people to be able to judge the risk of getting “legal ransomware”d if the trusted computing base ends up depending on a proprietary component that they can’t back out of.

That said, there is absolutely zero chance that I use this (systemd is already enough Poettering software for me in this lifetime) so I’m not personally affected either way.

Again lots of doomsayers like you said it when systemd was introduced. Nothing happened. Same with RedHat IBM takeover.

> You could tell this sort of insinuation to anyone. Including you.

Yes. You correctly stated the important point.

> Argument should be technical.

Yes. Aleksa made no technical argument.