Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 20 oct 14, 09:49:24, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Well, it's worth noting that in many areas of endeavor, users, or user
> > communities, write specifications/standards that all players have to meet.
> > So, for example, when one buys an ethernet card - vendors really do not
> > really have a choice as to whether or not to implement the standards.
>   
> Not a good example: Ethernet is an IEEE standard and as far as I
> understand from Wikipedia this is not a user association, but a
> professional association.
>
> > With Linux distros, including the kernel and implementing the LSB are pretty
> > much things everyone has to meet (with a few notable exceptions like
> > GNU/kFreeBSD - though arguably that's not Linux).
> Would you please be so kind to explain how systemd breaks LSB?

These are both situations where  folks other than "those who do the 
work" have a lot of say in what work gets done.

Miles Fidelman



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