From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: (Really) Free Software future Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:41:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6343757.2cZvDvYTfs@pc-713> <20191010061705.GH27628@protected.rcdrun.com> <20191010070606.GW27628@protected.rcdrun.com> <8561e1505c3d90c4deb8bdbfb1a20dced6e96066.camel@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: (marinus.savoritias@tuta.io) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gnu-system-discuss-bounces+gcgs-gnu-system-discuss=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "gnu-system-discuss" To: marinus.savoritias@tuta.io Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] If systemD is be hard to replace, that is a kind of lock-in. But it isn't _vendor_ lock-in. systemD, like most free software packages, is not tied to any particular vendor. Indeed, the usual concept of "vendor" for free software is not applicable to free software at all. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)