I thought this law was just a joke, but after Manny years of development, I'm finding out it's very real.

It's also increasingly painful to make happen in today's email ecosystem.

The real question is, when will this joke finally get old? Like is it really still funny to make joke after literally every thread about SystemD has made this joke for 10+ years.

Btw, it already exists and its called ParticalOS:

https://github.com/systemd/particleos

systemd-antivirusd*

I mean. It doesn't use RPMs (directly), but systemd-sysupdate and systemd-sysext do cover that ground. Though the vision seems to be somewhat coarser than traditional packages.

I think it's clear at this point that the allegations don't worry them. They tried debunking them by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of these are separate daemons that are entirely optional, can be packaged separately, and don't affect anybody who doesn't want to use them. The people raging against systemd didn't feel obligated to take those facts into account.

So they're just doing their own thing, and the distro landscape seems a clear indication that their own thing looks pretty compelling to basically every distro with any meaningful market share.

People may as well make the pitch that Linux is "taking over everything".

systemd is still GPL (LGPL to be exact) so if you truly want to get rid of the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" you might want to take a look at the rust-coreutils for a starter