<i>In a discussion of systemd history held here previously, it was pointed out that back in 2007-or-so, there was a large amount of interest expressed by various distro makers in adopting OSX&#x27;s launchd as the basis for a new platform standard, if only it had been FOSS at the time.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think there ever was a <i>large</i> amount of interest. In fact, the only party that studied launchd at the time (circa 2006) was Canonical. It was indeed licensing issues that stalled further research, but there was also another contender at the time being considered called initng, which Canonical ended up rejecting and went on to write Upstart instead, led by Scott James Remnant. See SJR&#x27;s proposal and introduction to Upstart. [1]<p><i>Early systemd was a launchd clone; upstart also started as a launchd clone before mutating.</i><p>Upstart was never a launchd clone to the best of my knowledge. launchd was likely a spark that influenced Canonical to take action, but the design is pretty different.<p>Your musings about the &quot;multi-runtime&quot; convergence that systemd will allegedly enable do not appear to pan out. systemd is nothing like the OS X Core frameworks or like the Windows Runtime, it&#x27;s much lower level than that. It&#x27;s more of a middleware than a runtime platform (think Hurd, not Core Foundation).<p>There is also absolutely nothing implying that GNU&#x2F;Linux will ever target Android code. The divergences are plentiful, with my article about an Android init porting attempt listing only a few. [2] Nor is there any expressed interest from any Android vendor to have any serious GNU&#x2F;Linux convergence to begin with.<p>Not sure what &quot;first-class Wine support&quot; is supposed to mean. Wine is pretty self-contained.<p><i>If we don&#x27;t, though, at least systemd is decent.</i><p>You&#x27;re too big of a dreamer, I&#x27;m afraid.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;ReplacementInit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;ReplacementInit</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.darknedgy.net&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;0-androidinit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.darknedgy.net&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;0-androidini...</a>