More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?"

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical Desktop and Mobile Engineer Christopher Halse Rogers explains in more detail the decision for Mir as apposed to Wayland. Although Halse Rogers 'was not involved in the original decision to create Mir,' he's had 'discussions with those who were.' 'We want something like Wayland, but different in almost all the details.' 'The upsides of doing our own thing — we can do exactly and only what we want, we can build an easily-testable codebase, we can use our own infrastructure, we don't have an additional layer of upstream review.' In a separate post Halse Rogers answer the question: Does this fragment the Linux graphics driver space?"

Comments

Re:Context please?

[Intropy]

I can think of no context in which a furniture designer engineer, no matter how agile or standards-conforming would have as similarly viable alternatives a former Russian space station and an animated sycophant.

Re:This just proves it's NIH

[AuMatar]

Unfortunately the grandparent has NIH, so he had to reinvent the acronym.

Re:This just proves it's NIH

[MichaelSmith]

Doesn't come more meta than that.

Re:This just proves it's NIH

[deniable]

So, if you don't like the usual version, you create a new one and expect people to follow. Too meta for me.

Re:This just proves it's NIH

[Zontar The Mindless]

You're doing the bright-but-butthurt 14-y-o thing pretty well there. Keep up the good work.