They want to build a literal smoke-filled back room in which to cut deals? Our era is beyond satire.
Wasn't there a book about this in the 1990's? Or maybe a Wired headline?
Because it's new and different and obsoletes a lot of your hard-earned knowledge of systemV init; as well as making it a level playing field for them young whippersnappers that didn't learn linux by installing it from floppies.