The real motivation behind systemd
In this article we're going to take a close look at the real motivation behind the development of systemd, and we're going to take a look at some of the future perspectives for GNU/Linux as an operating system.
Update 2022-10-31: Things are not getting better, unsurprisingly. With Microsoft now at the leading role of the development of systemd and their brave new trusted boot world, combined with their takeover of so much open source infrastructure, this is slowly turning into the "covert take over" of the Linux world that no one ever wanted. It's seriously time to get back into community-driven development.
Personally I didn't have a problem with systemd in the beginning, when it was just a new init system. However, my problem with systemd today is that it has turned into a kind of Trojan horse. It is an attempt by Red Hat (IBM) to change the world of Linux in order to better serve their corporate interests.
While the Linux kernel, the GNU tools and the different major independent Linus distributions all started out as community driven projects, most of the current development in Linux world today is motivated by corporate interests, driven by developers sitting in different key positions in different companies, such as Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, Facebook and several others.
