The actions of Ubuntu affect people using other distributions. If Mir is completed and Nvidia, ATI and Intel decide that they will support it and no longer maintain their X11 drivers, that means that other distributions will suffer because of Ubuntu's actions.
It's like having microsoft control a standard, it's why the guys who develop mono are off their rocker. When you let someone at the wheel who completely hates what you are trying to achieve, he's going to steer things in bad directions. What's worse is that wayland was doing was simple. X11 was an old old standard and wayland was just moving in to replace a crufty piece of open source.
Some people were OK with it, some people weren't, then all of a sudden ubuntu goes and makes a THIRD standard, citing a laundry list of nonsense reasons to abandon all that work. We know the reason they did it, it's the same reason they made that ridiculous unity DE. They want control.
Comments
No one's forcing you to use Ubuntu. Don't like it? Move along.
The actions of Ubuntu affect people using other distributions. If Mir is completed and Nvidia, ATI and Intel decide that they will support it and no longer maintain their X11 drivers, that means that other distributions will suffer because of Ubuntu's actions.
That may be true, if and only if, Mir turns out worse than X11. If it turns out better, then it is a step in the right direction.
I really don't see how it could be worse than being stuck in X11-land though.
Sure, Wayland may(or may not) end up even better. But why should I care, as long as there is a great improvement to the current situation?
It's like having microsoft control a standard, it's why the guys who develop mono are off their rocker. When you let someone at the wheel who completely hates what you are trying to achieve, he's going to steer things in bad directions. What's worse is that wayland was doing was simple. X11 was an old old standard and wayland was just moving in to replace a crufty piece of open source.
Some people were OK with it, some people weren't, then all of a sudden ubuntu goes and makes a THIRD standard, citing a laundry list of nonsense reasons to abandon all that work. We know the reason they did it, it's the same reason they made that ridiculous unity DE. They want control.
That's exactly what most smart people have done. How does that help Canonical when that happens?
No one's forcing me to swim in a cesspool either.
That doesn't mean I can't complain about the stink.