The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

That's rather interesting perspective since there is nothing that says that open or closed software has to be share-able between OS and there is nothing wrong with writing software specifically with spesific OS in mind be it Windows, BSD, Linux, OS-X or Solaris to take directly benefits of what relevant OS has to offer.

systemd is an init system specifically written with linux in mind and thus tightly integrates and takes all of what the linux and it's kernel has to offer just like Windows has it's own (winload.exe ), BSD has it's own ( BSD-style init), Now Linux will ( in most distro's ) have it's own ( systemd ), OS-X has Launchd and Solaris has SMF.

As far as I know people aren't switching out the init system that is being shipped except on linux and on top of that last time I checked the BSD and Solaris developers were perfectly capable of updating/replacing their own init system if they deemed it necessary as well as carrying downstream patches to upstreams that dont want to support them.

Why the linux ecosystem has to have gazillion init system makes no sense and on top of that supporting more then one is arguably somewhat crazy and maintainers nightmare from my point of view.