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Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl>, 2022-07-08 09:40 (+0200):

> Well, what the title says. Some folks here wandered what the future
> may be. I suppose destroying Linux, or making it irrelevant.

Microsoft of today is really not the Microsoft of the 1990s. There are a
lot of people at MSFT working on Linux in different forms.

> What would happened, if systemd development went in two ways, one
> gnu-licenced and the other commercial?

I suppose more distributions would look at the alternatives like OpenRC
or S6.

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