That's exactly what it was danieru. An ultimatum not just for Gentoo but for
anyone not on board with systemd. Nice post by the way.
Pottering's attitude is what has many dev.'s question the intention of his
project, and the overall scope of his plans. Never seen anything like it
before, at least not on this scale and level.
Gentoo will continue to develop OpenRC and give its users the choice during
install whether they want systemd or openRC or a combination of the two.
Slackware, Crux, BSD's and others are against systemd, and have no plans to
implement it. Slackware has gone so far as to drop any support for Gnome and
its programs as a result of its stance against systemd and RedHat influence
in general.