Best i can tell, Poettering, much like Gnome devs (and the first mailing list entries i can find attributed to him indicates he was using Gnome back in the day)

Best i can tell, Poettering, much like Gnome devs (and the first mailing list entries i can find attributed to him indicates he was using Gnome back in the day), finds his inspiration from Apple. Pulseaudio, Core Audio. Avahi, Basically a straight reimplementation of the Zeroconf/Bonjour protocol. Systemd, Launchd. Frankly i would not mind, except that by getting Freedesktop on his side he is able to push his vision of the Linux stack onto other distros.