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On the contrary, seeing this shows that Wayland is the survivor among many competitors and not something major distributions suddenly pulled out of their asses.
by eloisant 3y ago
On the contrary, seeing this shows that Wayland is the survivor among many competitors and not something major distributions suddenly pulled out of their asses.
If anything that gives Wayland even more weight as the replacement for Xorg.
- xscott 3y agoThere are plenty of examples throughout history where an inferior product won out over the alternatives, usually because of business or politics unrelated to merit.
- jrm4 3y agoThank you, I feel like there's likely a more complex story going on with Wayland; and it feels like Gnome especially is far more interested in "cornering the market and being the only game in town" than "playing nice with everyone in the spirit of e.g. Free Software." I get that no law requires them to "be nice," but we should definitely talk about it regardless.