That's because systemd originated at RedHat. If it had been designed distribution agnostic it would have worked a lot better on other distros besides RH.

The only parties that really cared about boot time were the big hosting providers and container schleppers. For desktop linux it never mattered as much.

As predicted. I thought pulseaudio should have been enough of a lesson. Besides that, any person that works on open source but that joins Microsoft is not in the camp that should have a say in the overall direction of Linux.

Money has its own reality distortion field.

Ambition does really weird things to people.

But I'm sure in this case when they achieve some kind of dominant position and Microsoft offers to re-absorb them they will do the honorable thing.

When has that ever happened in the entire human history?

> So adding all of this technology will certainly make it more easy to be used for either good or bad.

Then maybe you shouldn't be doing it?

Will you always offer an option to end users to disable the system if they so desire?

it won’t matter if you disable it. You simply won’t be able to use your PC with any commercial services, in the same way that a rooted android installation can’t run banking apps without doing things to break that, and what they’re working on here aims to make that “breakage“ impossible.

I can totally relate to this, it's gotten to the point that I'm just as scared of rebooting my Linux boxes as I was of rebooting my windows machine a couple of decades ago. And quite probably more scared.

everyone attacking Microslop for a bug where Windows won't shut down properly

well, systemd's got them beat there!

The good thing about systemd or any other Linux software is that you don't have to use it, until this company gets off the ground.

I think at some point we will see a steep increase in value of old hardware that can still run unsigned binaries.

It won't be able to interact with any online services like Google or Hacker News.

You will always be able to interact with rsync.net …

… and the warrant canary we publish every Monday morning.

Google I can live without ;)

What distro?

The box that I'm worried about in particular is running RedHat.

Ubuntu boxes: usually ok as long as you stay away from anything python related in the core system.

You mean you never kept your originals but just uploaded and deleted the masters?

Date of publication (copyright) is important to a songwriter even if there are a hobbyist.

That step makes a big difference though.