&gt; systemd has grown fast and conquered large market shares because it was backed up by a company, which put a lot of money and manpower into it - to write it, to integrate it, to advertise it. The only thing that has not been correctly funded in systemd is research and design.<p>&gt; systemd is only Open Source if you read the license; all its other aspects are proprietary - it&#x27;s software made by a company and aiming to capture a market. It is impossible to compete with systemd on the same grounds, because no real Open Source developers will have as many resources as Red Hat.<p>This. The reason systemd is hated so much by &quot;old unix guys&quot; is because it shows that Red Hat basically owns linux the way Microsoft owns Windows and Apple owns OS X.<p>Many people protested against systemd but it was still pushed by force. It was made specificaly incompatible to make experience on BSDs worse and it sucessfuly removed Gnome from there.<p>So yeah. Some &quot;haters&quot; talk about unix this and complex that, but I believe it&#x27;s mostly about scummy company showing off it owns linux now.