Drei Viertel (77%) können sich zwar die Anwendung einer solchen App auf freiwilliger Basis vorstellen. Eine verpflichtende Einführung wird jedoch eindeutig abgelehnt (72%) und nur von einer Minderheit (21 Prozent) als akzeptabel angesehen.

Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals.

10 years ago, systemd was announced and swiftly rose to become one of the most persistently controversial and polarizing pieces of software in recent history, and especially in the GNU/Linux world. The quality and nature of debate has not improved in the least from the major flame wars around 2012-2014, and systemd still remains poorly understood and understudied from both a technical and social level despite paradoxically having disproportionate levels of attention focused on it.

I am writing this essay both for my own solace, so I can finally lay it to rest, but also with the hopes that my analysis can provide some context to what has been a decade-long farce, and not, as in Benno Rice’s now famous characterization, tragedy.