>If they just designed their software how they want to and otherwise let it be In my experience, that is what they're doing. Their software just happens to be

>If they just designed their software how they want to and otherwise let it be In my experience, that is what they're doing. Their software just happens to be adopted by more users because in a lot of cases it is better and does represent the future. You have that advantage when you support a lot of commercial users over a long period of time. Red Hat also has a policy of contributing a lot to upstream so that also adds to why they have success with other projects. >If various Red Hat projects didn't find a way to create dependencies on systemd to encourage it's adoption I think this is an exaggeration. I haven't seen any projects that have anything more than a trivial dependency on systemd to enable some optional functionality.