People complain about AWS and others taking OSS projects and profiting wildly off them, but they're all children compared to the machinations of Ubuntu.
It's been this way from the start. The constant conflict of interest, where Ubuntu devs manipulate debian democratic processes, and the inclusion of systemd and its ridiculous swiss-army-knife implementation of an init system and surrounding tools.
You ever see those knives, the huge ones, with a screwdriver, plyers, and 100 other tools on them? Thing is, they're all crap. They work for an odd case, but you always need to reach for a real tool.
That's systemd. Whether systemd-timesync, its dns services, or anything else it does, it's kiddie time. Barely functional, broken in inane ways, and leaving any professional in a situation of endless masking of a myriad of barely cogent and horribly malign services.
We didn't gain anything with systemd, except for an init system 1000 times larger, codebase wise, and a collection of tools you have to replace anyhow.
And now these guys want to do Amutable. I hope they fail, for if they succeed, they will sink us further into this absurd system. Systemd for death. For despair. For dislike. For dumb. For disregard, devilment, debased, disturbed, systemd is all these things, and more, all packaged for you, all presented to you, all given to you, to all of us, dragging us down, destroying us.
If there is an apocalypse, it'll be somehow some bug in systemd that causes it. Nukes will fly due to its broken code, viral containment systems will fail due to buffer overruns in its code, systemd is the end-of-world waiting to happen, its over-complicated, poorly written code a guillotine waiting to fall upon us all.
I run thousands of sysvinit, and thousands of systemd systems.
Which ones, do you think, have the worse record of "something stupid" bringing down a service, a machine, preventing a boot up, you name it, it's systemd.
I swear to God that Trump exists because of systemd somehow. I place all the ills, perils, at the feet of systemd. It represents everything wrong in the tech ecosystem, its tendrils spreading dark, deep disturbing dreams of madness through all it touches.
Just learning how to use systemd, destroys the logic centres of the mind, rendering advocates incapable of productive work.
All wrong and ill that befalls this world, is at its feet.
I suspect through some incomprehensible twist of fate, the entire fabric of the universe may unravel, undoing all that is, and ever was. All lost, all gone, all because of systemd.
I am beginning to suspect I dislike systemd.
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