Boycotts are what shrill activists on the losing side engage with. The free-market way to change company policy is to start a new company and make new policy. Doing otherwise is just trying to leech off of the success of other, stronger people.

>Not supporting *BSD themselves is one thing, but systemd explicitly refuses patches to make it more portable.

This is exactly what OpenBSD is doing with LibreSSL, so excuse me if I don't listen to the pot calling the kettle black.

The fact of the matter is that Linux won. Systemd won. Alternatives had every chance to make themselves successful, but they lost, and they have nobody to blame for that but themselves.