No, that's not explicit. That's a few instances of "like launchd". Where M. Poettering actually is explicit about inspiration, xe writes the words: > we took

No, that's not explicit. That's a few instances of "like launchd". Where M. Poettering actually is explicit about inspiration, xe writes the words: > we took a lot of inspiration from Upstart's code-base ... which they actually did and continued to do, from observation. There were significant discussions amongst the systemd people involving the way that things worked with Upstart, including (for just three examples out of the many over the years) having to work like Upstart with respect to putting the X server on the first KVT, Upstart's handling of SIGPWR to process #1, and eliminating /dev/initctl because it was not really utilized in Upstart. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772915 * https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-July/037161.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-Ju... * https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-September/034344.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-Se... In comparison, there was almost zero similar consideration of launchd. The idea that launchd inspired systemd is a myth, not borne out by what M. Poettering explicitly wrote was the inspiration nor borne out by the evidence of what the systemd people did down the years.