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Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...



On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 12:53:30 -0500 Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Apr 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > The documentation for ALL the init systems has already been written
> > and is fairly comprehensive. Maintenance on the various inits,
> > except systemd, of course -- its implementation is still very new
> > -- seems minimal. So, all that can't be the reason.
> 
> The issue isn't with the maintenance of init itself, but with
> maintaining everything that interacts with init and any divergences
> from upstream which are necessary to keep maintaining compatibility
> with a non-systemd init.
> 
> Bit rot happens.

The price you pay to satisfy the needs of loyal users. And a small
one at that.  Look what happened to Microsoft with the Windows 8.0/1
debacle.

B


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