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Re: boycott systemd

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: boycott systemd
Date 2014-09-07 19:47 +0000
Organization My Linux Box
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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-07, Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Of course, that doesn't stop programs from being absorbed by it.
> > Gnome is the most prominent example, but upower recently decided to
> > depend on systemd:
> >
> >> 2014-06-03-upower-loses-hibernate-suspend-to-systemd
> >> Title UPower loses hibernate / suspend to systemd
> >> Author Samuli Suominen [email]
> >> ...

> That's indicative of a huge problem, then: once stuff begins to get
> rewritten for the new systemd system, it becomes a monumentally
> bigger task getting it out of your system, as other stuff depends on
> it. Systemd is also incompatible on BSD systems, so any developer
> that writes for systemd is eliminating the ability to run his
> software on BSD, which is too bad for everyone involved.

It is exactly Microsoft's "Embrace, extend and extinguish" policy, only
applied to Linux.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish>

One would think the systemd dev's are on microsoft's payroll.

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boycott systemd Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-07 06:01 +0000
  Re: boycott systemd Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-07 09:26 +0300
  Re: boycott systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-09-07 02:46 -0400
    Re: boycott systemd Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-07 06:52 +0000
      Re: boycott systemd RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-07 10:42 +0000
        Re: boycott systemd Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-07 14:26 +0000
          Re: boycott systemd RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-07 14:52 +0000
            Re: boycott systemd Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-07 19:47 +0000
              Re: boycott systemd Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-08 04:56 +0100
                Re: boycott systemd Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2014-09-08 08:53 +0200
                Re: boycott systemd Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-08 11:02 +0000
                Re: boycott systemd Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2014-09-08 13:17 +0200
                Re: boycott systemd RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-09 07:54 +0000
                Re: boycott systemd Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-09 16:39 +0000
                Re: boycott systemd Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2014-09-09 19:03 +0200
            Re: boycott systemd Ben Collver <bencollver@devio.us> - 2014-09-08 01:41 +0000
        Re: boycott systemd "D.D." <xyzzy@inbox.com> - 2014-09-07 21:59 -0700

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