Re: "use the money to bribe Microsoft to hire him away from Redhat"
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'services' in windows NT (and later) were supposed to be like daemons in POSIX OS's...
* run in userland as background processes
* 'system' type of user context (root, other user)
* auto-start on boot or on demand
* managed by system utilities
without arguing against systemd [which I would] I question the validity of your comparison between windows and Linux and 'windows services' [which I've written] and the assertion that in any way the windows way is superior...