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Re:Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release ca... by anonbanker on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:16PM (#14176271)
> why do people hate it?

Poorly-designed, poorly-implemented, half-baked ideas, legendary feature creep that presents a corollary to Zawinsky's Law, awful developers, clear political agendas in the devteam, Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactics, against the basic UNIX concept of "many small apps that do one thing and do it well", an informal adoption of Windows service/logging techniques, political lobbying by the developers, and a literal RPC-based backdoor into the enforceability of the GPL.

Re:Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release ca... by mdekkers on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:10AM (#14176821)
a literal RPC-based backdoor into the enforceability of the GPL

Oh, I didn't hear that one before - any more info?

Re:Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release ca... by ilwtekuysd on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:34AM (#14178096)
Some of the 4chan people trolling about systemd try to make people believe that communicating over tcp sockets, pipes or dbus with other processes is a "backdoor" around the GPL. Because a non-free program could talk to a GPL progam. Shocking!