On Mon, 18 May 2020 08:57:39 -0700 Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote:
> On 2020-05-18 16:42, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > In particular by porting Window$ on top of Systemd-Gnu-Linux, just > > like MacOS lives on top of FreeBSD and makes big profit. > > How would that work from the legal POV? Linux is still GPL, pretty > much for this very reason. > > I do believe that systemd was meant to be more than init from the > start, but I'm not going as far as Didier. I am. I eschew Occam's Razor in favor of Litt's Razor, which can be paraphrased "Follow the money." As one piece of evidence I present the words of a Redhat exec long before systemd existed: http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/10/interview-with-red-hat-cto-brian.html Search the word "complexity" to get right to the piece of evidence that Redhat profits from complexifying Linux. SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
