[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:21:01 -0400
"A. Zimmer" <andrew.zimmer at comcast.net> wrote:

> However, this has not happened with Linux and systemd.  Rather than
> creating a fork, as would be the most sensible option, the RedHat
> conglomerate and its lackey developers have attempted, and almost
> completely succeeded, in dragging the entire Linux community in its
> preferred direction. The whims of a tiny clique of programmers, with
> the financial backing of selfish corporate interests, have been
> forcibly ensconced into an otherwise free and open software
> environment.
> 
> Why has there been no outcry?  Why has there been no resistance to
> this odious imposition?

Wait a minute. There's been a lot of outcry. You should have been on
the Debian-User mailing list 7-11/2014, and you would have seen outcry.
More outcry:

* http://ewontfix.com/14/
* http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html
* http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd
* http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm
* http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=570371
* http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

There are many, many more. Also, don't forget that Devuan is busy
ripping out systemd tenticles from the former Debian, and that Funtoo
has pledged never to incorporate systemd.

There's plenty of outcry. It's just hard to be heard above the big bux
megaphone used by Redhat.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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