Samuel Sieb writes:
On 3/22/21 6:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> Yup. This is an obvious vendor lock-in play. Replace widely-known
> technologies with new, arcane stuff whose full documentation is kept
> internal, and is leveraged as a value-added product.
We all understand by now that you really don't like systemd, but please keep
your conspiracy theories to yourself. They don't even make sense. Who's
the vendor?
Ummm… IBM?
It's fully open-source software, where's the
lock-in?
Here's a hundred thousand lines of code. Documentation? Not so much. But,
hey, it's "open-source".
Sometimes things do need to be re-implemented, there's nothing
wrong with
that.
You wrote the magic word: "need". You hit the nail right on its head! So,
cron needed to be reimplemented …exactly why?
Heck, cron was almost a portable standard of its own. We went from vixie-
cron to cronie, with barely a hiccup. crontabs worked the same way, and
they've been working the same way not just for years, but for decades.