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http://web.archive.org/web/20140428103624/http://boycottsystemd.org/
Just to name a few reasons.
The fact the original website is no longer available tells us a LOT about it. Maybe the server running it crashed because it didn't have proper service monitoring... or all the init jankiness was wasting so much resources the guy paying for the server run out of money :D
Now in all seriousness: I don't disagree with most points however, systemd also provides a TON of functionally that was never this easy and stable. Also if you consider the grand scheme of things Docker and whatnot are a bigger virus than systemd is or will ever be and the irony is that systemd does run containers with less overhead :).
No need to drag that BS from the archives. It was never correct nor convincing.
Wow wonder what happened to those guys?:)