Sure he is, all important distros unified under systemd. Frightning for a lot of people...
When it comes to Marks move: what else could he do after trying to turn over the ballot and get rid of Bdale as head of the committee? If Ipstart would have won, Debian would have been upstream for it and Mark wins. With Upstart loosing, hanging on to it would cost developer time and hence money. Plus the trouble with logind with systemd >204. So, he did not really have much of a choice. For me this announcement is highly hypocritical.
greetz
devil