Two additions:

• some software is also sold under a separate license in addition to GPL, so you can choose if you want free open source or paid closed source (e.g. Qt has this model)
• being in breach of license terms doesn’t mean you’re forced to do anything automatically: it means you can get sued and a judge might order you to do something (probably pay money) to heal the breach, or you can settle out of court (probably by paying money).

*with a CLAUDE.md

Yeah, no matter the truth content of this piece of tinfoil, the vote I linked shows that systemd continued being agreeable among voters.

The handful of conspiracy myth believers are now on Devuan if that still exists. Presumably mad about something else that exists only in their head.

Where did you pull that number from? https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initsystems/results.txt

The smallest difference between a systemd option and a “not-only-systemd option” I see is

Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 211 - 177) = 34 votes.

And bear in mind that condorcet selects the most agreeable option, not just the majority option.

And it makes sense: the most likely contender at the time was upstart, which didn’t stand the test of time AFAIK (I don’t think the systemd hater crowd still uses that)

So it ended up the right decision. Would they have decided differently if other good init systems had existed already? Maybe, but they didn’t.

Of course retirement is normal, societies have taken care of the elderly and infirm, people with disabilities of any kind, children, and so on.

Are you kidding?

Ah yeah let’s just fuck over the open source dev cool.

Maybe ask the author for what to do? I’m sure they are receptive to arguments.

That’s why the author offers a commercial license with custom image and serious name.

There’s a commercial license you can use to replace the image

I’m an Arch user. I check the diffs when I update a package. I won’t do anything as I’m obviously not compromised.

I’m a little sad that GitHub actions uses the cron scheduling grammar. A YAML dictionary with a similar set of keys like systemd timers would have been so much better, especially with autocomplete

Your conspiracy myth is wrong, and if you actually care about what’s true, you can confirm what I say very easily for yourself:

Just go to the mailing list archives and forums and follow the decision making discussions of the time. E.g. Arch Linux. This will quickly and decisively convince you that “big tech” had nothing to do with it.

But you don’t care about the truth, do you? You just want the comfortable position of being able to look down on all the mainstream fools.

If you criticize something because of perceived bloat, maybe don’t make it the mouse in your metaphor.

And no, it’s a great init system that has all the features one wants. That’s why it ended up taking over: it was the first really good init system that introduced actual dependencies and so on.

These aren’t serious. Their mission statements are nothing but childish contrariness.

E.g. Artix has a “no true Scotsman” right in their tagline about “real” init system. Only 14 year old master debaters will attempt to deny that systemd is a “real” init system with a straight face.

LMAO, good one!

Nah, people just started using LLM assisted vuln discovery workflows and having early successes with them.

There will be diminishing returns.

People did that before Athens too. Read “the dawn of everything”

By definition or usually?

Which is perfect, but you can also get a USB-C cord with a magnetically attached plug.

You wrote

Because to you it’s virtually meaningless other than some weird nostalgia

responding to my comment. I didn’t take any side, let alone argued from with nostalgia; where does the “you” come from?