[ale] Systemd and cygwin

[Michael Trausch]

The level of ignorance within the IT world gets bigger and bigger. Jesus.

Better assume Cygwin is incapable of auditing and maintaining their code, if they cannot be bothered to read C. WTF. 

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> On Nov 17, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
> This bit just popped up on the cygwin mailing list recently (the "same
> thing" is referring to the Microsoft and Apple One user, one license
> model for programs that were traditionally single machine operations
> like word processing instead of shared server applications that now use
> seats.)
> 
> "    The recent push to convert linux to use systemd -- is all about
> reducing the functionality of linux to require the same thing -- so
> 1 system monitor (systemd) can keep track of how many users are
> using "licensed seats" --- so vendors can force you to pay 10-100
> times for the same program.  It's also about locking down linux so
> that you can't easily your own programs to get around such licensing
> mechanisms (you'd have to "jailbreak" your computer -- as is done
> with smartphones these days, to allow you to run what you want on
> your own computer)."
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