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Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding
jones_supa writes The record amount of security challenges in 2014 undermined the confidence many had in high quality of open source software. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, addressed the issue head-on during last week's Linux Collaboration Summit. Zemlin quoted the oft-repeated Linus' law, which states that given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. "In these cases the eyeballs weren't really looking", Zemlin said. "Modern software security is hard because modern software is very complex," he continued. Such complexity requires dedicated engineers, and thus the solution is to fund projects that need help. To date, the foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative has helped out the NTP, OpenSSL and GnuPG projects, with more likely to come. The second key initiative is the Core Infrastructure Census, which aims to find the next Heartbleed before it occurs. The census is looking to find underfunded projects and those that may not have enough eyeballs looking at the code today."
You have no idea what you're talking about. Please read about cgroups. If you like what you read, feel free write it into the BSD of your choice. Systemd does not break compatibility, the kernel does. Not only that, it does it to fix a very specific and very important problem, namely, that tracking processes by means of scripts and pidfiles is fundamentally flawed. It's not even the first time that someone has tried to fix this, it's just the project with the biggest uptake in Linux so far.
Complaining about compatibility is just ignorant. The most charitable interpretation is that you're saying that Linux developers should not use Linux-specific features. Otherwise you're making some sort of statement about what features different kernels should have, and in either case, good luck with that.
In any case, it has nothing to do with control; your argument rests on a false premise. If you want compatibility with Linux, write equivalent features for the BSD kernel.
If by by "kill" mean "improve" then yes.