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Embrace and extend is a fundamental part of the OSS model. That's what you're supposed to do: pick some OSS, make some custom add-ons to it, then upsell it to your customers. The l…

Of course they were influenced by the author of programs they use. They were also influenced by Linus Torvalds when they decided to use his kernel. I don't see any problems with th…

If you're only talking in hypotheticals then they're already optional and replaceable. Someone just needs to do the work to replace them. You're missing that these parts have to ge…

>Libc and linux kernel are good solutions to well defined problems: a standard C library, and a kernel That's subjective. I've talked to a lot of Windows users who all say Linux is…

>systemd should be an optional package on all distros. Why? Should glibc also be optional? What about the Linux kernel? What about apt-get? You can technically replace those things…

I don't understand this comment. Systemd is a lot of small tools with a specific scope that do their job well.

That would be the distro's problem, not systemd. Any of those utilities are going to be optional, the distro has to consciously enable them and ship them in a package for it to mak…

>But you can't choose your window decorations, themes, desktop panels independently anymore and get a somewhat matching look and feel. It's only Gnome island, KDE/Plasma island, an…

You mean the distros broke it by not toggling that option. As you can read from the parent comment here, that "convention" was also broken and causes issues in Debian. There's no s…

You don't have to fit anything in your head. I often find myself consulting the index at `man systemd.directives` to remember things: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/m…

That's a pretty negative way to make an innocuous statement: that it's expensive to make an OS. You can't expect Red Hat (or any other Linux company) to maintain backwards compatib…

>It was killed because of the Red Had power behind Systemd. That is an absurd, untrue conspiracy theory. Whoever told you that should be ashamed. The author of Upstart said that it…

That isn't "political power" it's called knowing your audience and knowing what they want. The audience here is Linux distribution upstreams who also participate in Freedesktop. Th…