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[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 21 2014, @05:35PM
So, essentially you are saying that the GPs argument boils down to believing it is wrong for someone / some people who creates and maintains a project to integrate it with another project they also create and maintain, and even though they release it for free use under open source licence so no user is tied into any vendor / maintainer, that just isn't good enough, they should not be allowed to integrate projects because ( because what ? I am stumped, is it just "unless I say so" ?).
"Should" is not the same as "allow". Prior to the merge of udev with systemd, one could use udev without having a particular init system. It looks to me like a dick move to increase the prevalence of systemd-based systems while simultaneously breaking functionality in udev. So yes, I think it's wrong to do that. Do I think it shouldn't be allowed as a result? No.
As to whether free use under open license is "good enough" or not, depends on how much effort it takes in the future to work around systemd and its blob of dependencies. There can be negative opportunity cost here compared to a more open approach.