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Yes but you usually enter a competition when you either have a chance to win, provide something the other won't or do it for experience (if you have resources t
by sametmax 10y ago
Yes but you usually enter a competition when you either have a chance to win, provide something the other won't or do it for experience (if you have resources to waste).
In the case or Mir:
- it's like creating an alternative linux kernel. Very few chances it will succeed.
- even they roadmap didn't list anything wayland couldn't do.
- canonical doesn't have that much cash to waste.
I would have get Mir if they would have said:
- we will do X that wayland clearly can't do and that we can't contribute to wayland;
- we have tons of cash and devs and can spare a few to experiment.
It's just not the case here.
This is open source, we all want a better linux desktop, not a war. Mir felt more like starting a battle than solving a problem.
- pekk 10y agoBy this logic, BSD developers should just work on the Linux kernel. Or is it the other way around? And nobody should ever make anything new. But this reasoning would have said not to make Linux to begin with, because there was already e.g. MINIX and Linux wasn't contributing to MINIX and didn't do anything that MINIX could not do. In fact, Linux wasn't even a microkernel! And few of the abilities which make it Linux as we know it today were on any "roadmap" (hahahaha). In open source, making your own project is not starting a war. This kind of flaming and demanding to control other people's allocations of resources is what makes a battle.
- sametmax 10y agoThere is no flaming. We are just sharing our opinions as active members of the community. Since I spend easily 50 hours every year on the Ubuntu project and give to the project, I think I have the right to post a comment on HN saying "I disagree". That's not a too much to ask is it ? Especially since people disagreeing ending up being right.