Well said. It's too bad some people seem to believe down-voting the truth will make their cognitive dissonance go away. > They're wrapping themselves in the GP

Well said. It's too bad some people seem to believe down-voting the truth will make their cognitive dissonance go away. > They're wrapping themselves in the GPL ...while encouraging a development style that isolates processes so they use IPC when they should be simply linking to a library and making a function call. Systemd depends heavily on dbus, because it ties developers into this model. This enables a rather convenient way for freeloading propriety software to use GPL code, without having to be subject to the requirements of GPL code. If you get some package to provide their services over dbus, you only have to "use" the software instead of linking against a library. Even ignoring systemd's bad design that tightly couples together services that worked fine as separate specs for decades, and even ignoring the terrible "we don't give a crap if we break your environment for no reason" attitude that is common among systemd's authors, this end-run around the GPL is a very good reason to avoid systemd. Now, I'm sure some people in this thread think I'm making crap up, being paranoid, or similar. To those people I say: when are you going to start paying attention? This is obvious when you look at the Linux community over the last 20 years. Stop being distracted by technical features instead of investing in your future. Are you going to be happy when all distros are de facto variants of Red Hat? Some of you might be, but if you're going to ignore the vast majority of Linux and Unix, could you at least fork the project instead of dragging the rest of the community down with you?\