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Intel, Red Hat Working On Enabling Wayland Support In GNOME

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-wonder-which-one-is-the-sidekick dept.

sfcrazy writes "After shooting down Canonical's Mir, Intel and Red Hat teams have increased collaboration on the development of Wayland. Developers at Intel and Red Hat are working together to 'merge and stabilize the patches to enable Wayland support in GNOME,' as Christian Schaller writes on his blog. The teams are also looking into improving the stack further. Weston won't be used anymore, so GNOME Shell will become the Wayland compositor. It must be noted that Canonical earlier committed to supporting and embracing Wayland. Despite that promise, the company silently stopped contribution, and it was later learned that they were secretly working on their own display server, Mir. Intel's management recently rejected patches for Mir, leaving its maintainance to Canonical. Before Intel's rejection, GNOME and KDE also refused to adopt Mir. Intel's message is clear to Canonical: if you promise to contribute, then do so."

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  1. Redhat? by Anachragnome · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Redhat?

    For those that are not aware of his past, Jim Whitehurst--CEO of Redhat--was once Vice President of Boston Consulting Group...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Consulting_Group
    (see following list of other employees of BCG)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_employees_of_Boston_Consulting_Group

    As I pointed out is another post ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4183357&cid=44792345 ), Boston Consulting Group is a central component of the "1%" and their influence around the world.

    Redhat is fully involved with the NSA, as is Intel (look at the links I provided in my other post). Neither company can be trusted for anything anymore. All of their products are now questionable in terms of NSA backdoors as a result of their previous (and in my opinion, ongoing) relationship with the "Big 3" consulting firms as well as the NSA.

    Blacklist those involved, and start looking for alternatives. Permanently. And, please, do not take my word for it--research these people yourselves, make the connections yourselves...come to your own conclusions. Start trusting your own instincts, rather then swallowing everything in the media (including Slashdot...there be spies here, too).