You are literally the first comment in the entire thread and you have nothing to offer but to chide Canonical, who by the way, were not even mentioned in the article. Neither was Ubuntu. In fact, you have to go about 4-5 threads deep in the comments to see a mention of Ubuntu or Canonical (specifically).
This article is about Wayland. Do you have any thoughts on Wayland? Weston? The future? X, even? Maybe some specific question about Mir and how it relates to thing things Wayland wants to do as well? The advantages of one vs the other? No? You don't have anything constructive to add? Greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaat.
It's times like these I wish I could downvote a comment more than once.
Yes, that's great, but that's got nothing to do with being constructive. Constructive comments are great, but someone could publish a long and interesting comment criticizing wayland or X11 without suggesting ways to improve. As long as the points are cogent, then the comment should make for worthy material. At no point do such criticisms have to make suggestions on how to improve wayland or X11. Just that they are civil, and substantial. Like you said.
Or maybe you're agreeing with me? It seems strange to redirect me to the newbie guide then.
What make one project superior to the other, besides your opinion? Open source is darwinian. If one project proves its superiority, development will shift and other projects will change. I would think that, as a hacker community, we could accept that.
It's not /exactly/ darwinian when one project is being driven by an organization with clout and corporate partnerships. If you're Nvidia/AMD/Intel, which project would you be more receptive toward throwing your weight behind? The rinky-dinky band of Linux hackers with good intentions, or Canonical?
What the manufacturers decide to do is critical, and I promise you they aren't taking some kind of meritocratic open-source approach to evaluating where to place their resources.
It is a reasonable belief. And I'm not criticizing you for having it. Still, this process has repeated itself for a long time. Its not always fast and the best doesn't always win, but its how things seem to work.
The most likely outcome is the Canonical toils away themselves on Mir, and everyone else works on Wayland/Weston. Maybe at some point Canonical decides that it's better to just use Wayland, but that's about it.
Wayland is already at 1.0, and has support from Valve, Nvidia, and AMD behind it. I don't see it disappearing soon. Especially since the implementation of Mir isn't even usable yet (while Wayland is).
Ok, I may have misread something, but I was going off of this[1], which was posted elsewhere. I could have sworn that a comment from one of the Wayland devs claimed that Nvidia, AMD, Valve were on-board (at least tentatively) with Wayland, but I can't find that post now.
This article is about Wayland. Do you have any thoughts on Wayland? Weston? The future? X, even? Maybe some specific question about Mir and how it relates to thing things Wayland wants to do as well? The advantages of one vs the other? No? You don't have anything constructive to add? Greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaat.
It's times like these I wish I could downvote a comment more than once.