[gavinhoward]

> 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.