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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by walterbell on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:05PM (#8631151)
Someone needs to dedicate an academic thesis to documenting how systemd advocates pulled off their coup, and what improvements are needed to OSS governance structures to prevent a repeat. By the time the pain becomes visible, no one will remember how the actual decision got made.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by deong on Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:48AM (#8635276)
I don't think there's any vast conspiracy to understand or try to prevent. sysvinit has actual problems, and systemd solves many of them. I'm one of the ones who finds it ugly/inelegant/gross aesthetically, but it did address issues people wanted addressed.

And there wasn't a faultless alternative either. It's not like upstart or sysvinit was so good that you need to invent anything to explain why systemd won out. It won out because people either don't share my mild aversion to its design or because they chose functionality on Linux over elegance/portability/fill-in-your-own-thing. And hey, that's a Pareto-optimal choice as well.

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by digi_owl on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:45PM (#8631421)
A bunch of devs scratching itches, Just so happened that their scratching sticks where tired together and covered in super glue.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by the_why_of_y on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @03:32PM (#8632428)
Yes definitely, and the thesis should discuss in detail the role of the Illuminati in getting systemd adopted, and provide a by-the-minute protocol of what went down at Area 51.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by walterbell on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @09:25PM (#8634077)
Add astro-turfing to the list of thesis topics, e.g. use the HN API to perform clique analysis of the many systemd threads on HN.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by anonbanker on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:15PM (#8633020)
The sole voice of truth in the entire thread, down voted for telling an uncomfortable bit of it.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by anonbanker on Saturday November 22, 2014 @05:37PM (#8646917)
Look how they buried me for even mentioning it.
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