Fri, 22 May 2020 01:42:46 -0700 - Rick Moen <rick@???>:

> C'mon, Didier. Explain please how adoption of systemd in RHEL and
> CentOS either gave RHAT a superior competitive market position relative
> to other market-relevant Linux distro companies or improved RHAT's
> financial strength. Trace out, please, the mechanism for how
> specifically that worked, according to you. (Please don't forget that
> the codebase in question is open source, ergo you're going to have a
> very difficult time asserting proprietary advantage, if that's what
> you're thinking.)
>
> I stand ready to check and verify your financial analysis.
>
> Ideological handwaves are not an answer to the question posed.


Sorry for the intrusion ...

But why not the opposite?

Why don't you explain why RH invested and is investing in efforts, advocacy and
money to develop something (systemd) that was not necessary, and to "convince"
everyone to use it?

Why don't you prove that this has nothing to do with finding a dominant market
position, and that it has nothing to do with direct and indirect economic
benefits for RH itself in favor of "investors" and "sponsons" more or less
obvious than RH?

Why don't you show that all this happens only because RH wants simply to do
good for the humanity or for - I don't know what - other positive reasons and/or
ethical pushes?

Why don't you demonstrate all this objectively and on a non-ideological basis
(including, if you wish, possibly economic and progress ideologies)?

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