That was a great article against systemd (note: you'll be banned if you respond 
to this mail, like my other acct was):
(ewontfix.com/14/). Thanks for posting it.

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They get their enemies banned. My other acct was banned for opposing their 
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"The crowd pushing systemd, possibly including its author, is notcontent to 
have systemd be one choice among many. By providing publicAPIs intended to be 
used by other applications, systemd has set itselfup to be difficult not to use 
once it achieves a certain adoptionthreshold."

"None of the things systemd "does right" are at all revolutionary.They've been 
done many times before. DJB'sdaemontools,runit, andSupervisor, among others, 
have solved the"legacy init is broken" problem over and over again (though each 
withsome of their own flaws). Their failure to displace legacy sysvinit inmajor 
distributions had nothing to do with whether they solved theproblem, and 
everything to do with marketing. Said differently,there's nothing great and 
revolutionary about systemd. Its popularityis purely the result of an 
aggressive, dictatorial marketing strategyincluding elements such as:Engulfing 
other "essential" system components like udev and makingthem difficult or 
impossible to use without systemd (but seeeudev).Setting up for API lock-in 
(having the DBus interfaces provided bysystemd become a necessary API that 
user-level programs depend on).Dictating policy rather than being scoped such 
that the user,administrator, or systems integrator (distribution) has to 
 provideglue. This eliminates bikesheds and therebyfast-tracks adoption at the 
expense of flexibility and diversity."


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