Le 18/05/2020 à 13:04, Peter Duffy a écrit :
> Thanks for the heads up on that - fascinating article.
>
> One of the things which always baffles me about systemd was that right
> from the word go, there was something which would have nipped in the bud
> all the controversy, pain, recriminations, etc. etc. Make systemd
> optional (so that, for example, it could be selected at install time
> from a range of available init systems, and later, if desired, removed
> and reinstalled).
>
> That way, people who liked it could use it, and people who didn't like
> it could use something else. Win-win situation: users could use the init
> system which they wanted to use; and systemd developers wouldn't have to
> spend all their time fending off howls of protest and hatred, and could
> concentrate on making systemd better (and if they introduced something
> that reduced the overall systemd usage, then they'd know (hopefully)
> that it wasn't a good idea).
>
> It's so obvious and self-evident that it must be concluded that there
> are other factors and agendas at work.

    Make profit from the user.

    In particular by porting Window$ on top of Systemd-Gnu-Linux, just
like MacOS lives on top of FreeBSD and makes big profit.

    Let's be positive: it can only make Window$ better, which is a non
negligible outcome, given the amount of Window$ users out there.

        Didier