Re: Boycott Systemd

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Harry Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Actually, it seems like a pretty clear synonymous interpretation to me.

I just happen to disagree.

> Also, I think you are using "literally" wrong in this context, as Frank
> clearly "literally" just did so.

Sorry; I'm not an English native speaker.

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> SteamOS and Google Chrome are both created by companies that want to have
> THEIR pieces of top-down control over YOUR computer.  They may have
> legitimate (read: "Intellectual Property") reasons for doing so, but that
> *is* nevertheless their goal, so if you're okay with ceding control to these
> for-profit corporations, and paying in tangibles and intangibles to do so,
> then fine.  If not, do not use their products.

That's your choice, and I respect that. But apart from the fact that I
would like to easily install whatever software I want in my computer,
is not only for-profit companies that want to do that; for any free
software program I wrote, if I want it available for all Linux users,
either I find a way to create packages/ebuilds for each distribution,
or I find someone that can do it for me.

Or even simpler than that: If I wrote a daemon, with SysV I could not
reliable write an script to starting it and stopping it in *all*
distributions. With systemd that actually works.

The old way doesn't scale.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México