Hi William,

On 13/01/18 01:18, William C Vaughan wrote:
> Lurker here.

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> Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with Dejuan

The right term is DevJuan :)

> and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but
> always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’s feelings on
> the systemd stuff, and am particularly inspired to reply to the latest
> missive on the possibility that Red Hat’s darling Mr. Poettering is
> primarily motivated to make Red Hat Enterprise lots of money in
> offering paid support of systemd Linux operations. As per politics,
> religion, educational prerogatives, and historical perspectives as
> officially endorsed, in the case of Linux and systemd, FOLLOW THE
> MONEY TRAIL. That nearly always works in tracing the sources of derision.

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> From the perspective of a retired programmer/analyst, now dilletante,
> you Dejuan folks are on the precipice of success.

Again, the right term is DevJuan (in spanish)

> See the forest over the trees, get your message out as an upstream
> solution to Linux in the enterprise - from servers to employee
> desktop/laptop solutions, there is no reason that systemd-free Linux
> alternatives can’t supplant the Red Hat, etc., cabal. They have MONEY,
> and that buys them exposure. My former employer, a major university,
> has bought Red Hat support hook, line, and sinker. You guys aren’t
> even on the radar.  I only am aware of your position and offerings as
> an old fart hobbyist with time to explore. I wish you well. How can
> you compete with the power that is money that propagates Red Hat,
> Canonical, et al? That’s your main dilima right now, perhaps on the
> threshold of eclipsing your system development tasks.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Move from rim to hub; know the wheel. - <Anon>

Cheers,

  Aitor.