Well, it makes the whole adoption story even more irritating.<p>Literally everyone with a clue in the matter seems to 
hate systemd with passion[1].<p>A long-term Debian Maintainer quit over the issue[2].<p>Linus himself (as you quoted) seems more than
a little annoyed by systemd and its developer.<p>And yet somehow systemd made its way into all major distros...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2014&#x2F;8&#x2F;12&#x2F;459" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2014&#x2F;8&#x2F;12&#x2F;459</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;err.no&#x2F;personal&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;Nov&#x2F;16" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;err.no&#x2F;personal&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;Nov&#x2F;16</a>