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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?"
Lock in !! Motherfuckers !! Lock in !!
And we call it Mir for that communistic touch !! To make the freetardhippietypes feel more at home !!
Have you ever considered perhaps that every acronym you can imagine there are other acronyms that are spelled identical and have similar meaning but use complete different words?
i.e.
NSA = National Security Agency or
NSA = National Speakers Association or
NSA = National Stuttering Association or
NSA = National Society of Accountants or
NSA = Network Security Appliance.
What makes you think that the acronym you think is the right one is the one I even intended? Or do you actually think every abbreviation only has one definition? I used the definition for NIH that I'm most familiar with, maybe instead of playing grammar nazi you should focus on content instead. But alas, you would rather demonstrate your belief in your own superiority.
BTW you're an asshole along with everyone else that felt the need to correct an abbreviation because only YOUR abbreviation is the correct one. Not that I expect much from someone that feels the need to post something as inane and free of content as your post was.
Only two possible acronyms! That's right, just like the other idiots you think that only YOU can decide what are valid acronyms and if you don't think it's right, and you are the only valid judge of such things. Clearly you are clearly superior to everyone else, even if you are basement dwelling troglodyte with autism.
NASA has a ~300 page book of just acronyms. There are many, and just because you think you know what one of them means doesn't mean you have a clue what the author used, that's why people define what the acronym they are using means (well people not stupid enough to think there is only one definition), because there are so many of them. But there are stupid people that thing there is only one or two acronyms to any given sequence of letters and that they can't have similar meanings. It's as valid as a criticism of grammar that's riddled with grammatical errors. Internet is full of experts that aren't and you are one of them.