On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:47:30 -0400 Harry Holt <harryh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's another take from Christopher Barry, in a mailing list post from > just last month: > > systemd is a coup. It is a subversive interloper designed to destroy > Linux as we know it, foisted upon us by the snarky > we-know-better-than-you CamelCase crowd ... > Thanks for this. It's good to hear others rant against systemd. However, as has already been indicated in this thread, complaining and ranting are not enough. There have to be developers stepping forward with alternatives. If Sievers, et. al. are the only ones willing to push an agenda then they, and systemd, will rule. I recall my earlier experiences with Linux and CD-RAM. The Linux drivers to access CD-RAM, controlled by certain folks as SuSe, were poorly written and functioned terribly. But since no one else came forward with alternatives (everyone just bitched on the forums) the sub-optimal code was kept and, for all I know, is still present. Of course, it's not that easy for someone to just jump into systems programming without an extensive background. Still, one can keep hoping for more forks and more differing distributions but it seems that Linux is destined to become highly monolithic in the future.
