Well, when Lennart says that *BSD is irrelevant as if he was the judge of that... I don't see why he shouldn't be able take a little heat. After all - he is the god that wrote, you know, PulseAudio and Systemd.
There are other hackers around that are not "Linux hackers" who might have a different view about the quality of Linux space. I tend to agree with them.
What does this suddenly have to do with BSD? kashchei claims that Lennart is incapable of ever producing good code and that all his creations must therefore die. Nothing about BSD.
It may seem unrelated but it is not. Lennart lacks the humility necessary for his contributions to be considered genuine advancements. He dismissed BSD in the context of discussing systemd. The way he put it, anyone who doesn't see the light coming from his code is irrelevant.
When I put this next to the half-success that PulseAudio is (which was similarly promoted and blindly embraced by all major distributions out there), I find questionable the idea of systemd being the next best thing since hot water.
There are other hackers around that are not "Linux hackers" who might have a different view about the quality of Linux space. I tend to agree with them.