Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932806AbbDJMku (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:40:50 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:34871 "EHLO mail-wi0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932324AbbDJMks (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:40:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: rogelio.serrano@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20140812153812.2923046a@monolith.infinux.org> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:40:47 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World From: "Rogelio M. Serrano Jr." Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1479 Lines: 29 > > Look, the systemd problem is self-limiting: the smartphone is to the > PC what the PC was to the minicomputer and mainframe before it. A > decade from now you'll plug your phone into a USB3 hub with a > keyboard, mouse, and HDMI adapter (or chromecast) and that will _be_ > your workstation. All the "my vax is way more powerful than your dinky > little compaq and I will cling to it unto death" arguments will > resolve themselves in time via the obvious solution. > > Android has a no GPL in userspace policy, systemd is gpl. Android has > its own init system it's not moving off of, and android is shipping a > billion devices annually while the PC gets kicked up into the server > space the way big iron always is by the next generation of devices > everyone actually interacts with. (This time that's called "the > cloud", and it's every bit as lucrative and boring as punch cards and > JCL and timesharing and so on.) > > Since systemd is excluded from android, I'm not getting particularly > worked up about it because if I didn't care what the Uh there is a "suggestion" of kdbus replacing android binder so yeah systemd might be close behind. I would not be surprised if they try to ram systemd down google's throat... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/