You control what you install on your pc and I’d be willing to bet that whatever open source OS it is, probably uses Systemd.
They have set this up in a way that yes, right now at 11:21pm UTC on March 24th it isn’t being enforced or required.
It is using systemd, yes. It could be using openRC, sysvinit, runit, etc just as easily.
Systemd isn’t a requirement for Linux. It is simply the most useful init system currently. If that ever stops being the case then changing init systems or entire even distros is a fairly trivial task. If systemd were ever to require me to submit to a 3rd party verification of my age I’d just use a different init system.
There is nothing that any open source project can do that would force me to keep using their software if I don’t want to.
They shouldn’t have done this. In mine, and many, many other peoples opinions as well.
If your opinion represents a large group of people then you should have no trouble maintaining a fork.
I hope that in the end this does end up all working out and I was just one of the crazy guys worried for no reason.
But either way I still think it is disappointing they did this so quickly and that they’re using a US push in law be such a deciding factor in originally pushing for it. It felt like that was the same way when they banned Russian maintainers. The USA and especially specific states shouldn’t have this much pull especially over open source community driven projects in my opinion.
It is using systemd, yes. It could be using openRC, sysvinit, runit, etc just as easily.
Systemd isn’t a requirement for Linux. It is simply the most useful init system currently. If that ever stops being the case then changing init systems or entire even distros is a fairly trivial task. If systemd were ever to require me to submit to a 3rd party verification of my age I’d just use a different init system.
There is nothing that any open source project can do that would force me to keep using their software if I don’t want to.
If your opinion represents a large group of people then you should have no trouble maintaining a fork.
You are right on that.
I hope that in the end this does end up all working out and I was just one of the crazy guys worried for no reason.
But either way I still think it is disappointing they did this so quickly and that they’re using a US push in law be such a deciding factor in originally pushing for it. It felt like that was the same way when they banned Russian maintainers. The USA and especially specific states shouldn’t have this much pull especially over open source community driven projects in my opinion.