> Other projects tried to do that too. And before systemd. Which ones you mean? > The unfortunate lesson of systemd is that playing politics will help you win

> Other projects tried to do that too. And before systemd. Which ones you mean? > The unfortunate lesson of systemd is that playing politics will help you win over your competitors. The way I see it, systemd knew who the "customers" were. Not so much normal end-users, as distro maintainers. It heavily appealed to people sick of writing hundreds of init scripts