From Devuan themselves, as follows:
“Groundbreaking OSINT investigation shows how three decisions by individuals with undisclosed financial interests permanently altered the identity infrastructure of every major GNU/Linux distribution running systemd”
They provide two links:


Then @ me 2 when it’s found.
I’m interested.
I asked an artificially unintelligent tool to find me the answer, and the closest hit (which doesn’t exactly match what I had in my foggy memory) is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100301115820/http://boycottnovell.com/
The topics the blog posts cover are similar(ish) to what I remember in any case.