Mir, like Unity, was a political play. Canonical keeps trying (and failing) to establish itself as the owner of some core, critical desktop software. Anyone wh

Mir, like Unity, was a political play. Canonical keeps trying (and failing) to establish itself as the owner of some core, critical desktop software. Anyone who knows open-source hackers should know that their bullshit detectors are highly attuned to typical political malfeasance, and the transparent overlays of conventional corporate politics are not going to work on them (other approaches would work supremely well; hackers are not invincible). I'm actually worried about Canonical after their repeated political failures. Despite their best efforts, Red Hat continues to stomp all over them, with systemd winning over upstart and now Wayland over Mir. They need to re-evaluate their strategy for land grabs. Do they not have the technical skill on staff to conceptualize technologies that get people on board? Is Red Hat intentionally undermining them (hard sell since most of these projects existed before Ubuntu decided to try to copy and win), and if so, how can they compete?