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> > Sorry Richard, but it is really a vendor lock-in. As you know there is > > only one _upstream_ of systemd and that upstream is a company. What vendor lock-in means is that there is only one version you can get and you have to get it from a particular company, a vendor (meaning it has sold you something). It is possible to distribute modified versions of systemD. I think some already exist. But even if they did not exist now, they could exist. Vendor lock-in in the true sense occurs only with nonfree software. With a nonfree program, modified versions do not exist. > systemd binaries are dependent on systemd and replaces programs that > did not have such dependencies. What does "systemD binaries" mean? That expression would normally mean the binaries of systemD itself, but it is clear you don't mean that. > There is my personal protest against the systemd's LGPL license. It is > service manager and not a special library that shall sacrifice freedom > in special cases. How do other programs talk with systemD? Do they link with it? Communicate through pipes? -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
