57% of voters have opted for something besides D) accept systemd and continue using Debian.
57%, folks.
Those numbers don't lie even in a small cross section.
GNU/Linux really, honest to goodness, is becoming like Microsoft Windows in its development approach. It is antithetical to the Unix blueprint. You'll remember that centralization began in Microsoft with Windows--the DE. Centralization in this case is being driven by the DE as well--GNOME. If it keeps going in this direction, and hear me out because this isn't conspiracy theory, you will see a day when there is nothing separating the GNOME DE from the systemd init from the Linux kernel. It will have all been centralized.
Then you will have your worst nightmare, because there will be NO PRACTICAL DIFFERENCE between your nemesis MS and you. You will have become what you hated most.
What is happening in the GNU/Linux world is astonishing to me. I never thought I would see this. I just never did.
I am honestly taken aback by this resolution from Debian development.
I think I can truly say that after this resolution, Debian is effectively no longer what it once was. For too many years now it has let itself become infiltrated with development that is simply adversarial to the Debian social contract.
Debian Squeeze was the last Debian distro. Debian sold its soul at its finest hour.
UNBELIEVABLE.
Now, there is really no structural difference in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or OpenSuse. Systemd has taken over. And people are going to regret this. And I mean big time.
In retrospect, I now long for the days of 2005 when SUSE and KDE were kings of the hill. Those were better days and at least development was going in a GNU friendly direction.
And then came U-know-who.
There's only one question I would like every GNU/Linux user in the world to contemplate for a moment, which is "What are these idiots doing to my system?"
If this truly is the final resolution of Debian development, then I will financially SUPPORT and DEMAND a FORK at all cost and in all haste!
No, Debian, damn YOUR torpedoes!
I CAME TO DEBIAN TO GET AWAY FROM CENTRALIZATION, YOU BUNCH OF APE-LIKE NUMBSKULLS!