@ Felix, thanks again for your thoughts. your point, about "crafting" is
well taken and I have to admit I do to a certain extent agree with you.
Also RedHat, as you point out, does have immense power in the Linux
ecosystem and, in my own not so humble personal opinion, this is not a good
thing.
@ Lisi, I try to post what I know, if I am wrong I am happy to be pointed
in the right direction.
My gut feeling with the Debian vote is Garbee voted systemd to limit
Canonical's influence on Debian. I may be wrong and I hope I am wrong. I
personally didn't mind upstart but in various things I have read over the
years it seems to me that it was only ever going to be a stopgap measure as
the code is apparently very untidy and it didn't improve the basic init
system.