Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit, systemd… and let go of the hating anyway (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Russ Allbery - 08.08.19, 20:33:58 CEST:
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> writes:
> > So, just to clarify…  so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok
> > to
> > hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)?
> 
> Personally, I'd be happy if people would just stop hating on any free
> software in general.  Even buggy free software is someone's effort,
> released into the world hopefully for our benefit.  These
> conversations would be so much easier to have if they were framed in
> terms of costs and benefits, different use cases, and personal
> preferences, rather than making supposedly-objective statements
> grounded in strong personal opinions about the merits or
> worthlessness of some piece of software.

Wonderful, Russ.

Definitely a +1 from me.

What if… just what if if SysVInit and Systemd are just different and none 
of them is even inherently better than the other. What if… just what if 
this is similar to KDE and GNOME, Linux and FreeBSD, Amiga and Atari, 
Ruby and Python, Vi and Emacs?

What if, just what if I just let go of all the judgments? Just for now. 
And see what happens then.

And of cause I can say I like this or that due to this and that… but an 
apparent other can say I like that or this due to that or this. What if, 
just what if in the end its just arbitrary? Its just opinions. What if, 
just what if none of this is *the* truth?

I believe this mind set would help a lot to just agree to disagree and 
move on with life.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin