Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

[onpon4]

The BSD guys aren't against systemd. Many of them oppose copyleft, but the  
main reason they don't use systemd is because they can't. systemd uses  
Linux-specific features, so it won't work with the BSD kernel. In fact, the  
OpenBSD project is working to come up with kernel-agnostic replacements for  
certain systemd programs that they want to include in OpenBSD (e.g. initd.  
Unfortunately, they are also trying to make these replacements available  
under a pushover license, so I suppose they're reverse-engineering the  
programs rather than simply going in and replacing any Linux-specific stuff  
with generic stuff, which would be easier; and this also means that their  
effort unfortunately benefits proprietary software developers. In any case,  
this is not "antisystemd" behavior. If OpenBSD wanted the latest GNOME  
without systemd, for example, it would be perfectly possible to remove the  
dependency on systemd from GNOME (and add back in support for that obsolete  
program logind replaced).