Or better yet, offshore the job.

No wonder US born developers are becoming an endangered species. This is spite of the non-stop shortage shouting.

Look at the job ads. Employers are looking for college degrees, and five years of recent, professional, verifiable experience. And employers will settle for nothing less, even as wages stagnate.

Maybe you have mis-identified the "bullies?"

SystemD is to Red Hat what OOXML is to Microsoft. They can claim it's "open" but really it is a vendor lock-in scam.

SystemD is a decision made by a few some execs at a for-profit corporation. It is absolutely not something the community was asking for.

I am sick of this Microsoft-like "the decision has already been made, why are you arguing? SystemD is inevitable, just accept it. Because we say so. So FU take it and shut up."

I am sick of the astroturfing bullshit constantly insinuating that SystemD opponents are just "haters" and a tiny handful of "UNIX grey beards."

SystemD is nothing less than a hostile take over of Linux by Red Hat. The entire scam is right out of Microsoft's playbook.

In other words "our proprietary product is *the* standard"

Red Hat is following Microsoft's playbook to the letter.

Seems like it would solve a lot of problems.

It would give Debian users years of use while the systemd thing got sorted out.

It would be a shame. A lot of people worked hard for POSIX, and I think POSIX does have a purpose.

I think you have it backwards.

SystemD is forced down our throats by a small elite at Red Hat. This is, very obviously, a move right out of Microsoft's playbook.

No thanks.

These days: Redhat == Microsoft.

I am surprised that more people don't see that.

At least we pretend to have free speech. Our politicians do not come right out and proclaim that free speech radicalizes people.

"Sure you have free speech, we'll just punish you if you say something we don't like"

Sure, that makes sense.

Not for Muslims. UK seems to have two separate standards: one for Muslims, one for everybody else.

Muslim preach hate in the streets all the time. Muslims are allowed to offend anybody. Nobody is allowed to offend Muslims.

Might as well piss on their graves.

They could win.

IMO: the article is wrong. Many of the reason that systemd is hated are technical. And those technical reasons have expressed, and then ignored, many times.

> You seem to be speaking for "the community", but I don't see any hard numbers suggesting that the majority of said community actually shares your opinions. Just because many voices cry out and cry loudly, does not make those voices representative of anything meaningful.

What about the other way around? SystemD advocates constantly try to dismiss those who criticize SystemD as a tiny handful of UNIX greybeards. I have yet to see any evidence of that being the case.

It very much seems to me that SystemD is pushed on all Linux by a tiny handful of Red Hat marketing execs.

Debian went with SystemD because they believed a systemd takeover was inevitable. Slackware is considering systemd for the same reason.