Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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.
>
Counter-argument: One word. Apple.
(Not that I am an Apple fan by any means, but Apple have for decades
been highly successful making zero effort at backwards compatibility. I
speak from experience, running iOS 9 on an iPhone 4s... the 8 can't come
soon enough -- and that is exactly why Apple have been successful)
Mark
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