JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BoydStephenSmithJr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dvandal</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>david_chisnall</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://izutsumi.eu/@strlcat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>strlcat</span></a></span> </p><p>This reasoning is based upon a fallacious dichotomy. In the real history, Upstart existed and had a strong competing maintainership, to the level that the <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> TC itself was nearly split down the middle on <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedHat</span></a>/#Canonical lines, and the choice was *never* between van Smoorenburg init+rc and systemd.</p><p>It was between <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/Upstart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upstart</span></a> and <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a>, the latter indeed being a reaction to the former, with <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/OpenRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRC</span></a> as a late entrant.</p>