On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 12:53:30 -0500 Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Apr 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > The documentation for ALL the init systems has already been written > > > and is fairly comprehensive. Maintenance on the various inits, > > > except systemd, of course -- its implementation is still very new > > > -- seems minimal. So, all that can't be the reason. > > > > The issue isn't with the maintenance of init itself, but with > > maintaining everything that interacts with init and any divergences > > from upstream which are necessary to keep maintaining compatibility > > with a non-systemd init. > > > > Bit rot happens. > > The price you pay to satisfy the needs of loyal users. And a small > one at that. Look what happened to Microsoft with the Windows 8.0/1 > debacle. > Counter-argument: One word. Apple.
(Not that I am an Apple fan by any means, but Apple have for decades been highly successful making zero effort at backwards compatibility. I speak from experience, running iOS 9 on an iPhone 4s... the 8 can't come soon enough -- and that is exactly why Apple have been successful) Mark
