> The whole systemd battle, Rice said, comes down to a lot of disruptive change; that is where the tragedy comes in. Nerds have a complicated relationship to change; it's awesome when we are the ones creating the change, but it's untrustworthy when it comes from outside. Systemd represents that sort of externally imposed change that people find threatening. That is true even when the change isn't coming from developers like Poettering, who has shown little sympathy toward the people who have to deal with this change that has been imposed on them.
The posix violation is by design. If you think that posix dictates the wrong thing, then you will do something different and this is what Poettering has done. The fact that systemd has more or less been embraced by linux is an endorsement of his design philosophy, even if distributions reject specific features.