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Ugh. Do we (the users, denizens, developers, whatever) really need to resort to personal attacks against members of our own community? I don't really have a dog in the systemd fight, but I sure do know this kind of thing makes me despair for our collective humanity.

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Hi, I'm the author of XLennart. I feel that you've missed the point of my very simple mod. XLennart is no more of a personal attack than XBill is a personal attack against Bill Gates (which is isn't). These are more of metaphors about the invasions of pieces of software, and the freedom of choice. I do not like Lennart or his ideologies, but he has the right to them. Just because silly clones of him get killed in this game doesn't mean I encourage, support, or desire anyone to kill him.

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