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> they might eventually do what Google is doing and start delaying releases for sourcecode Who is "they" here? There's no value to gain from closing the freede
by debugnik 4mo ago
> they might eventually do what Google is doing and start delaying releases for sourcecode
Who is "they" here? There's no value to gain from closing the freedesktop ecosystem: no company has a distribution chokepoint like Google does with Play Store, the overall PC market is in decline and everyone would switch to existing anti-systemd alternatives.
- Meneth 4mo agoI would imagine Red Hat are pretty close to "they", since they created Systemd and then there was the RHEL redistribution controversy [ https://old.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/14k8jmw/can_someone_explain_what_happened_with_red_hat/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/14k8jmw/can_someone... ].
- debugnik 4mo agoI too guess they meant Red Hat. But that move just resulted in really big clients switching to RHEL derivatives like Rocky or Almalinux. Closing systemd would spawn a fork and possibly an specification effort for non-systemd components to join in.