レナート・ポッターリング

レナート・ポッターリング（、1980年10月15日 - ）は、サウンドサーバであるPulseAudio、Zeroconfの実装であるAvahi、System V initの代替であるsystemdで知られているドイツのフリーソフトウェアプログラマである。
半生.
彼はグアテマラのグアテマラシティで生まれ、ブラジルのリオデジャネイロとドイツのハンブルクで育った。現在は2011年からレッドハットで勤務している。
2003年から彼は40以上のソフトウェアプロジェクトで貢献している。その大半はC言語で書かれたものである。彼は多くのLinuxディストリビューションで採用されているフリーソフトウェアプロジェクトのプロジェクト創始者・開発者・メンテナである。特に、2004年に開発が開始されたPulseAudioと、2005年に開発が開始されたAvahiと、2010年に開発が開始されたsystemdは広く知られている。
論争.
Poettering is known for having controversial technical and architectural positions regarding the Linux ecosystem. 
His style has brought accusations that he is working against long-standing Unix philosophy, which he addressed in his blog post "The Biggest Myths." For instance, Poettering has advocated speeding up Linux development at the expense of breaking compatibility with POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems such as the BSDs. He took this position because of his experience in writing some other low-level components in the desktop stack. He invites other developers to do the same. Poettering recommends also reading "The Linux Programming Interface" but ignoring the POSIX-specific parts. 
In 2011 Poettering, one of the main developers of PulseAudio, praised the Windows and macOS audio stacks as "more advanced" and called OSS "a simplistic 90's style audio stack" without relevance for a modern desktop.
Also in 2011, when asked why the Linux desktop hadn't been widely adopted by mainstream users, answered that: "Linux is still too fragmented...[and] needs to be streamlined...". In 2014 Poettering published an essay criticising how software in Linux distros is commonly packaged, updated, and deployed; and laid out proposals that he, Kay Sievers, Harald Hoyer, Daniel Mack, Tom Gundersen and David Herrmann, had for how the architecture should be changed.
The controversy around systemd culminated in personal attacks and alleged death threats against Poettering. In October 2014 Poettering complained that the "Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets." Poettering went on to put some blame on Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers for being bad role models for encouraging an abusive discussion culture on technical disagreements; a position which was shared by others like kernel developer Sage Sharp.
半生.
In 2017, he received the Pwnie Award for Lamest Vendor Response.