He chose the option that was the fastest for development purposes/testing. On average Google/Cloudflare worldwide has the fastest and most reliable DNS services.
Why would he change it?
He says it clearly that it's the responsibility of distro maintainers to modify these defaults which they are encouraged to do.
It's everyone else who is choosing drama. This is for development purposes, the entire privacy argument is completely irrelevant.
If it's so irrelevant, then why _not_ change it? That's what good leaders do. Small price to pay to get good will and a large group of bystanders on your side.
Because all of the alternatives are simply less reliable, less performant, less available and offer no benefits for development/testing. That is the only factor that matters here.
>That's what good leaders do. Small price to pay to get good will and a large group of bystanders on your side.
I don't think he cares about people who are determined to stay ignorant. Especially of those who refuse to comprehend the needs/use cases for different parties.
Frankly considering he has received death threats about systemd, I am surprised he even put a response at this point. It would make sense to me if he just closed the ticket immediately with a link to the previous discussion.
The only factor here that matters is development/testing.
Drama is irrelevant and wouldn't change anything. At worst, he gets his issue tracker filled. If it bothers you, then the only thing that you can do is change to Devuan or don't use systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved. Distros are going to continue using systemd irrespective of this nonsense drama.
Some people are really bad at "information retrieval" (and some people are unusually non-worried about public pressure), so maybe finding a link into the previous discussion would've been more work for Poettering than what he actually did.
> It would make sense to me if he just closed the ticket immediately with a link to the previous discussion.
That would have been overwhelmingly preferable to
> Christ, what's next? You accuse us of controlling people's minds with vaccinations we get directly from Bill Gates? And that systemd uses 5G to spread CoV-2?
Why would he change it?
He says it clearly that it's the responsibility of distro maintainers to modify these defaults which they are encouraged to do.
It's everyone else who is choosing drama. This is for development purposes, the entire privacy argument is completely irrelevant.