On Thursday 18 September 2014 07:35:44 Michael . wrote:
You are correct the vote was 4-4, 4 of the votes were
employees of
Canonical who created Upstart and upstart got 4 votes from those very same
people. The other 4 votes had no ties at all to another distro or a pay
packet.
Thank you. That is very interesting information. I didn't know that, and
didn't know to ask the question. It puts a very different complexion on the
nearness of the vote.
Mark Shuttleworth has accepted the "defeat".
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Thank you David, for putting your money where your mouth is. Most opponents
of systemd, anyhow on the Debian list, rant and rave and *do* nothing. Not
that there are many of them.
May I forward/copy your email to the Debian list?
Lisi