>     Agree with you on all points, except, perhaps, "ill-will towards
>     it's developers."

>     Given their intent to remake Linux in their image:
>     http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

>     their everyone else be damned attitude:
>     "Also note that at that point we intend to move udev onto kdbus as
>     transport, and get rid of the userspace-to-userspace netlink-based
>     tranport udev used so far. Unless the systemd-haters prepare
>     another kdbus userspace until then this will effectively also mean
>     that we will not support non-systemd systems with udev anymore
>     starting at that point. Gentoo folks, this is your wakeup call."
>     (Lennart Poettering,
>     http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html)

>     and their general propensity for breaking things, leading to
>     reactions from no less than Linus Torvalds:
>     "Key, I'm f*cking tired of the fact that you don't fix problems in the
>     code *you* write, so that the kernel then has to work around the
>     problems you cause.
>     Greg - just for your information, I will *not* be merging any code
>     from Kay into the kernel until this constant pattern is fixed."
>     (http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html)

>     Maybe just a little ill-will toward it's developers is well
>     deserved, as a response to their ill-will toward the rest of us.

>     Miles Fidelman