| Systemd is controlled by Red Hat in a way in which critical system components including kernel haven't been controlled before. Not by single corporate entity. That's what we know about this company from an old (2007) article: > “When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open > source,” General Justice continued. “It may come as a > surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is “the” single > largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer.” [1] It is better to go with a grass-roots solution, even the one technically inferior, that isn't being influenced by one single vendor or government (especially the one that has a tendency to indiscriminately infect other people's systems [2]). Also, the Interface Stability Promise [3] by systemd team is just a promise, nothing more. Will Red Hat keep it if it is to decide at some point, that it no longer serves it's bottom line? I wonder if it can be considered legally binding. [1] http://archive09.linux.com/feed/61302 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceSt... Originally posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7210064 |