This is easily the most comprehensive and informative reply to the issue with systemd I’ve seen so far. Thank you for the response, I can see why their increasing dominance is alarming.
I’m certainly not at liberty to pass judgment on whether it deserves its current reputation, since I barely know enough to make it work to my needs. But I would be most interested to see how things play out.
Honestly, I am also not that much of an expert in it, but I know enough to know that some software team having and expanding this amount of control over the entire GNU/Linux world is dangerous.
I value my ability to use Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, Dillo, Websurf, Qutebrowser, Elinks or whatever other browser I want; if there was only one system-wide webkit that everyone suddenly needed to use for anything that had to do with the net, I’d be queasy about it because that’s a lot of power in one team’s hands. And that not all “open source” teams are benevolent is pretty obvious when you look at the corporate-backed ones like Canonical’s Ubuntu, or Red Hat; or even Mozilla given their recent bouts with spyware.
The “unix philosophy” that so many people tout about is a little silly, given that the entire point of GNU was “GNU is not Unix”… and we are not in the 90s anymore. But still, a modular system with plenty of small things doing one thing well is at least secure to any hostile takeovers since a small package can easily be replaced by an alternative.
Imagine if SystemD incorporates some form of DRM to ensure “compatibility” and “authenticity”, like how Google is trying to control the Web and Android (if you have followed the recent news). And SystemD is based out of RedHat, which should be plenty alarming already
This is easily the most comprehensive and informative reply to the issue with systemd I’ve seen so far. Thank you for the response, I can see why their increasing dominance is alarming.
I’m certainly not at liberty to pass judgment on whether it deserves its current reputation, since I barely know enough to make it work to my needs. But I would be most interested to see how things play out.
Honestly, I am also not that much of an expert in it, but I know enough to know that some software team having and expanding this amount of control over the entire GNU/Linux world is dangerous.
I value my ability to use Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, Dillo, Websurf, Qutebrowser, Elinks or whatever other browser I want; if there was only one system-wide webkit that everyone suddenly needed to use for anything that had to do with the net, I’d be queasy about it because that’s a lot of power in one team’s hands. And that not all “open source” teams are benevolent is pretty obvious when you look at the corporate-backed ones like Canonical’s Ubuntu, or Red Hat; or even Mozilla given their recent bouts with spyware.
The “unix philosophy” that so many people tout about is a little silly, given that the entire point of GNU was “GNU is not Unix”… and we are not in the 90s anymore. But still, a modular system with plenty of small things doing one thing well is at least secure to any hostile takeovers since a small package can easily be replaced by an alternative.
Imagine if SystemD incorporates some form of DRM to ensure “compatibility” and “authenticity”, like how Google is trying to control the Web and Android (if you have followed the recent news). And SystemD is based out of RedHat, which should be plenty alarming already