On 26 Jun 2023 at 22:16, Steve Litt wrote:

> ... didn't see any motivation for Debian's ...
> replacement of sysvinit ...

> The people involved seemed very motivated, and it makes me wonder.
There's a vey old saying: follow the money.

Never noticed that systemd is practically a twin (form, function,
etc.) of the Window's regustry?

And who does Poettering work for *today*, after systemd is firmly
enroached within the Linux ecosystem?

Thought so. 8^)

Best,

JHM


















>
> >( Unless, in a similar manner to how Red Hat acquired the CentOS
> >project, Debian is somehow acquired by a corporation through hiring
> of
> >the people, i.e. an 'acquihire' ).
>
> I once was very close to a $35,000 contract to teach troubleshooting
> to
> a very large company's employees. Then an older and more
> established
> training company offered the large company's troubleshooting
> training
> project manager a cert in their methodology. The guy wouldn't speak
> to
> me after that.
>
> SteveT
>
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