[mjw1007]

Broadly, systemd was trying to do two things at once:

- be "opinionated" software

- supersede all other software in its category

Very few other free software projects have tried that combination.

I think it might have been be possible to do without angering large numbers of people if the developers had been significantly above average in both technical judgement and the social aspects of developing free software.

But the systemd developers weren't either of those things.

[strictfp]

Classic Red Hat. Arrogant and agressive. Reinventing the wheel. Usually also one or a handful of developers per project.

[strictfp]

For those of you who downvote this because you think I'm being disingenuous, I speak from personal experience of working closely with Red Hat in a number of projects where their code were an integral part of the solution.

Red Hat really do reinvent the wheel, for the purpose of making money selling popular kinds of software. And they're shamelessly declaring themselves superior to the product they're mimicking. And the projects are ran like side projects of the lead developers.

[sergiomattei]

And yet Systemd represents the biggest advancement for Linux in decades.

[bdhcuidbebe]

The year of the Linux Desktop wont happen until LennartDE released.