> Systemd was adopted by redhat because it is their baby
You mean after shipping Upstart in RHEL 6 and immediately regretting it?
> And because redhat controls gnome, gnome created a hard depend upon systemd.
This is some revisionist history right there. Red Hat contributes money to GNOME, along with a lot of other organizations. GNOME is not even close to being the only DE either... are you asserting some sort of evil conspiracy to adopt systemd for profit or something? That is absurd...
> ...are you asserting some sort of evil conspiracy to adopt systemd for profit or something?
Why does it have to be an evil conspiracy? Corporations pay folks to work on these things.
Based on my personal experience: Corporations have things like OKRs and performance reviews and the like. Managers in such companies (at all levels) tend to have a hard time understanding what their people work on and whether or not it was actually important and/or useful. This leads to managers getting seduced by things that are easy to fit stories to... Bold Mission Statements and Grand Visions.
One great story is how you're "Revolutionizing Computing and Paving The Way To The Future With Cutting-Edge Technology".
Another great story is how you're "Accelerating the Desktop Through Tighter Integration With Cutting Edge Components".
Absent highly-clued-in managers who have enough slack time to figure out how useful the things you've been doing are, great stories get you more money, accolades and promotions than folks who don't have great stories. Simple as.
No conspiracy needed. It's just a bunch of folks following "incentive gradients" that don't result in optimal outcomes for the unpaid folks who work on and/or use the product.
You mean after shipping Upstart in RHEL 6 and immediately regretting it?
> And because redhat controls gnome, gnome created a hard depend upon systemd.
This is some revisionist history right there. Red Hat contributes money to GNOME, along with a lot of other organizations. GNOME is not even close to being the only DE either... are you asserting some sort of evil conspiracy to adopt systemd for profit or something? That is absurd...