On 2024-06-01 18:16:37, altoid via Dng wrote:
> 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.


Hello altoid

I share at 100% your opinion. Your words are sinceres and true.
It's very sad that the GNU/Linux world has been hijacked by big
money companies.

I switched definitively to FreeBSD few weeks ago by anticipation
of a total lock-out of the GNU/Linux world.

Regards,

--
Darius