Hello:

On 1 Jun 2024 at 18:00, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> ... see embrace, extend, extinguish at work here.
I have said it so many times it has grown ancient and tiresome to
hear myself.

"The writing has been on the wall for years."

> Even if it has not been planned that way ...
Make 'no' mistake about it: it *has* been planned that way.

> ... a plan to convince all distros to use Systemd
> from the beginning of Systemd development.
Exactly.

The main object was to infiltrate the Linux ecosystem and take it over.
That part has been accomplished and sooner than later there will be
no Linux left, at least as we know it today.

> ... and work on interoperability solutions that work for everyone?
Because 'people' do not give a flying flamingo* about that.

* ie: a shit

There is and will always be a lot of moolah behind the use of systemd
in Linux and Debian has been the Trojan Horse used to achieve the
first part of that goal.

Now, the system has been infected and the infection is growing fast.

With the aid of Poettering and his crew of MS/IBM/RH misfits, the
pustch against the Linux ecosystem continues while within Linux the
few that care are talking about/discussing multiple init softwares
instead of investing their time and efforts to make dead sure that at
least 'one' works without needing systemd.

No matter *which* one. Just one that works and can use all the
available packages.

Sooner than later, not *one* package in the Debian repositories will
have an initscript and as a result absolutely *everything* Devuan
will be dead in the water.

I'm sure that everyone will then be very happy to have the *choice*
of only one Linux-like (if you may call it that) OS to choose from.

And that day, Microsoft's wet dream will have become a reality.

Unbelievable.
But close but with every day that goes by closer to being the truth.

A.