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by forgotpwd16 1447 days ago
>I think Poettering pushed systemd through politics because he wanted to have a popular piece of software

Poettering already had created PulseAudio and Avahi which were used in every major distro for years before even starting systemd. Even discounting that, politics had nothing to do with system's adoption. Rather systemd was adopted because it was technically superior to any contemporary alternative.
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kasabali 1447 days ago
> politics had nothing to do with system's adoption

So Poettering wasn't an employee of Red Hat when he was writing systemd, wasn't coworker of Fedora developers when they were adopting systemd and all its subprojects? He also wasn't working at the same company with Gnome developers when they were making logind a hard dependency? I bet he also didn't have anything to do with his coworker Kay Sievers taking over udev maintainance only to subsume it into systemd shortly after.

Politics has nothing to do with systemd's adoption, really.

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gavinhoward 1447 days ago
> Even discounting that, politics had nothing to do with system's adoption.

They had a lot to do with systemd's adoption!

As I said in a reply to a sibling comment, usual adoption means getting users to adopt your software. Poettering used politics to get distros to adopt his software. Completely different methods.

> Rather systemd was adopted because it was technically superior to any contemporary alternative.

Not really. For certain use cases, yes, but systemd is still laughably bad.

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