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The current kdbus controversy is unrelated to systemd, as far as I can tell.

The motive for kdbus came from the systemd project:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-Mar...

And as stated in the article the concept is a good deal older then that with as storied a history at every turn.

The motive and possible solutions goes back further that systemd; see https://lwn.net/Articles/551969/

Systemd is why kdbus is even being talked about (personally, I think it's a crazy idea, but then I don't use dbus even on my desktop), and the two projects share a lot of developers.

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