Which is part of my point; although BSD is not my personal license of choice, I really think it would be a bad idea to have Linux distros (or apps higher in the

Which is part of my point; although BSD is not my personal license of choice, I really think it would be a bad idea to have Linux distros (or apps higher in the stack) be incompatible with the BSDs, eg by requiring something Linux specific (eg, systemd). I'm not a big fan of systemd; I really think is too wide in scope, and making the logs binary doesn't make sense to me. It might be more acceptable to me if they dual licensed it (GPLv3 and BSD) so that it could be ported to and used in the BSDs (among other systems); that would also give the bonus of improving the code (which making it portable almost always does). Alas, none of these concerns are likely to be addressed satisfactorily. PS - So-called "theoretical" use cases have probably been the number one source of bugs (especially security holes) in the history of software. "Oh, don't worry about checking array bounds, nobody would be stupid enough to write too much data!"