For Linux to keep evolving, part of evolution is mutation, the strong will flourish while the weak will die.

Regardless of what init system is right or wrong, the beauty of the Linux ecosystem is we can afford for different distributions each to make different decisions.

Systemd seems functionally better than both sysvinit and upstart and it certainly doesn't seem to be the root of all evil like this article makes out.

I don't believe that everyone boycotting systemd over what's currently out there will aid linux in any way.