The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

You could also mention that all of this code runs with an even higher privilege level than root (for being in the kernel).

But I think we all should just calm down and let's see what happens. Debian developers will have their GR, numerous upstream developers will either rely on systemd functionality (or not) and many many distro packagers will spent their time as they see fit.

The systemd developers will continue to do their stuff as they are doing it now. Let the code speak for itself! I personally will try to abstain from any systemd debate for at least a couple of months and I guess in 2-3 years we'll know how everything played out.