> man, it's sad to see the state of things, where IBM/Red Hat employees basically run the entire Linux userland, and stuff Red Hat doesn't use gradually bit rot

> man, it's sad to see the state of things, where IBM/Red Hat employees basically run the entire Linux userland, and stuff Red Hat doesn't use gradually bit rots away. Word, but that's the symptom. The cause is a severe lack of developer time. If no one develops the Linux userland unless they're paid for it by companies like Red Hat, then of course the entire userland will eventually come from those companies. For the same reason, Debian currently can't afford to burden its maintainers with supporting alternative init systems, which means they still have to write legacy init scripts and reap none of the benefits of systemd.