I have a quibble with the following statement:<p><i>"It's as if we had learned nothing from the mistakes of the past 20 years."</i><p>My quibble is it's as if we had learned nothing from the mistakes of the last <i>40</i> years, not 20. The problem I see with the whole discussion/argument around systemd is it ignores there's two philosophies in computer science, which for convenience sake I'll call the Unix way and the Windows way. I believe the reason so many people, especially us old-timers, are railing against systemd is because it adheres to the Windows way. The problem is there's a lot of Windows people who've now migrated over to Linux and so they love it. It's like Linux has been gentrified and we've all been kicked out of our homes. At least that's why I think people are so intensely emotional about this subject.<p>As for me, I've decided the hell with it. If Linux now wants to follow the Windows way and adopt systemd - there's nothing I can do about it. It's not even really my fight. I had nothing to do with the creation or maintenance of Linux, GNU, the init tools, etc. Though it's all free I've decided to vote with my time and usage - and that now goes to BSD. So long as BSD follows the Unix way I'll stick with it. Maybe you'll join me, maybe you won't. You use what you want to use and I'll use what I want to use. Peace.