On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:03:17 +0200 Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta@gmail.com> wrote: <snip>
Some people fear that if you use it you will be giving something to that unknown project behind systemd. But if it takes you where you don't want to go, it can be forked. It has happened before with bigger projects.
<snip> Yes, but I have the feeling (just my feeling, I can be wrong), that the epoch when the best and brightest people did fork projects of this kind may be past, or at least passing. I am not blaming anyone, - the constraints of time / career are perhaps more difficult to contend with than they were 20 years ago. Further, the success of linux in fields far removed from my irrelevant little desktop brings opportunities and problems which may interest those people more. Times change, but one is allowed to regret some of the consequences. Geoff