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NIH is a cynical name, it means you prefer IH. All this stuff is related to Canonical reinventing stuff, without most other distros adopting it.

• Daviey 4y ago
  Are you suggesting Canonical should have stuck with SysVinit and shouldn't have tried to make systems better?
  • gatlin 4y ago
    No they are suggesting the possibility you intentionally excluded, which is to make systems better but by other means.
    • Daviey 4y ago
      When Upstart was conceived and first shipped, what other option was there?
• chungy 4y ago
  Upstart got some decent adoption, with both Debian, Fedora, and RHEL switching to it by default for a short time. Its downfall was that it didn't offer a great deal of benefits and kept all the downsides of sysvinit. systemd was superior in every way.