There's one thing that the boycott post gets right, that Mr Poettering doesn't address, which is:

> 2. systemd's journal files (handled by journald) are stored in a complicated binary format.

Mr Poettering tackles the myth that configuration files are binary (they are very obviously not).

That said, I am not sure how to get the journaling data in an Upstart system, nor in a sysvinit one.