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Lead Mir Developer: 'Mir More Relevant Than Wayland In Two Years'
M-Saunders writes Canonical courted plenty of controversy with it announced Mir, its home-grown display server. But why did the company choose to go it alone, and not collaborate with the Wayland project? Linux Voice has an interview with Thomas Voss, Mir's lead developer. Voss explains how Mir came into being, what it offers, and why he believes it will outlast Wayland.
Can you point to something specific that the old way is better?
As with systemd it seems that some people are ready to adopt the new and toss the old in the trash. NIH served Canonical well there, as their customers are both direct users (who according to the Ubuntu philosophy have no need to know what systemd is or what it does) and people who maintain Debian based or similar distros.
If Canonical makes something better, and people who do not have financial incentive to adopt it do so, what does it say about the technology?
And if absolutely no one other than Canonical adopts it, who is hurt?
The open source philosophy says that Canonical is free to fork or replace something, and the larger community is free to to adopt or ignore the results. Just as Red Hat, and just as Linus. Do you disagree?
Now, explain yourself, or retract your post.