But i have come to understand that he no longer holds commit rights, or at least has the grace to develop his plans via a branch called NextBSD.<p>This would be akin to Poettering and crew setting up their own distro, perhaps based on Fedora, to test and demo their creation.<p>Also, Even in its present state Launchd is far from as invasive as Systemd is. And Systemd is still going full scope creep ahead.