onpon...not true, they are completely against it. What they are doing is
making their version which would be limited to an init system and not the
entire monolithic software suite that is the ever growing mess of systemd.
BSD will never go for systemd as it violates POSIX, which the BSD's (and
prior to systemd GNU/Linux did as well), adhere to.
You might enjoy these threads whether you or for or against it:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-from-scratch-13/what-is-so-bad-with-systemd-4175500300/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-and-systemd-885228/#post4380112
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/systemd-is-obsolete.49372/
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-is-freebsd-coping-with-a-systemd-future.46667/
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://systemd-free.org/index.php
Interesting to note that you can make Parabola systemd free as well by
following the tips from the above link.
Debate is good, and debate is the one thing RedHat and Pottering did not
allow. But then again this is what happens when people right out of college
think they know better than people with 30+ years of Unix/GNU/Linux
experience.