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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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Poettering has always been a piece of shit.
POS or not this is a reoccurring problem with open source. The benevolent dictator for life. Hopefully we can grow past it in the coming years.
Fork it and create a democratic project, nobody is stopping you. Wanna know projects that are very open and democratic? FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Wanna know why they aren't as popular as linux?
Python also dealt with this problem and seem to be doing fine.