I guess he makes a good point because he&#x27;s saying that the standard APIs are a good thing and BSD should also focus on that to ease development for large projects like GNOME and KDE.<p>I can completely understand why systemd need their own timers as part of those APIs, I however cannot see the point of having their own NTP service. Maybe the old one was broken with systemd?<p>But that&#x27;s just one valid point, not being able to see the necessity of timesyncd does not invalidate the underlying goal of systemd, nor does it warrant moving to another distro.<p>Because bottom line here, bsdmag is a BSD oriented zine so its focus is to promote BSD distros. I used to use 100% BSD 8 years ago but my migration to Linux is now complete.<p>The BSD license in my opinion hurts open source more than GPL. There are three major examples that I can think of where big corporations have used BSD code to avoid re-inventing the wheel and piggybacking on open source. Microsoft when they used some BSD userland tools, Apple when they built OS X and Juniper when they made JunOS.<p>I used to interpret these decisions as flattering, but they are in fact simply taking the code they need, with the license that allows them to do it. They would never take GPL code as freely because they would risk being locked in by its requirements.