This man makes valid points about the state of GNU and BSD. I&#x27;ve been tempted to leave linux completely as of late, but the truth of the matter is that I love GNU too much to go.<p>Yes, RMS is pretty pegged on the autistic scale, but he&#x27;s not wrong, and Snowden proved that GNU as an ideology is pretty much our only hope against nation states intending to deprive us of our freedoms.<p>GNU is the closest thing to a soul the software industry could have, demanding nothing less than freedom for the users of software and writers of software. Their (not) unix is a beautiful thing to look at, and companies like Novell&#x2F;SuSE and Red Hat built their empires on its foundation.<p>Now, Red Hat is taking an active role in rewriting everything but the kernel, in order to push-out and&#x2F;or marginalize the GNU crowd. If they were honest, they would have Poettering come out and state publicly that they are creating a replacement Operating System for the linux kernel. but they&#x27;re not. They&#x27;re wrapping themselves in the GPL (and the goodwill that comes with it) while trying to destroy Stallman&#x27;s creation.<p>Red Hat has quietly declared war against GNU, and those that support it, embracing and promoting the watered-down (and far more profitable) &quot;open source&quot; concept as they go.<p>In that war, systemd is merely another salvo that (I think) began either with Havoc Pennington writing dbus off the back of Nat Friedman of Ximian&#x27;s hard work and research, or their complete takeover of freedesktop.org. NetworkManager, Avahi, and PulseAudio being pushed into all the distributions, always long before they were stable (and all written by Poettering), proved with a paper trail that they had worked the kinks out of their embrace-and-extend plan long before systemd was ever mentioned on a debian mailing list for adoption.<p>I wish the author well, but some of us are gonna stick around to try and keep GNU strong against this new threat. We&#x27;ve lost Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu, but this war is far from over.