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> For the life of me, I'll never understand how wayland got traction with the community. Corporate drive. Originally sponsored by Intel followed by IBM (RedHa
by doublerabbit 2mo ago
> For the life of me, I'll never understand how wayland got traction with the community.
Corporate drive. Originally sponsored by Intel followed by IBM (RedHat) and the rest followed suit.
- dredmorbius 2mo agoSauce?
- doublerabbit 2mo agoIt's how any of these projects get shifted in distribution if not sponsored. > Kristian Høgsberg, I work at Intel in the graphics team in the Open Source Technology Center. I'm the founder and maintainer of the Wayland project. You either pitch or bring it with you. Demonstrate a tech demo and you're granted an engineer or two. It's how Amiga came to be, Steve Jobs with NeXT. And it appears you can no longer link anything from reddit without being asked to login and they've now nuked old.reddit If you have an account this thread has some very insightful comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1m0ztn/how_is_wayland_considered_a_community_effort_when/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1m0ztn/how_is_waylan...
- dormento 2mo agoMoney, the "cure" to the hacker ethos.
- throwaway84932 2mo agoWayland didn't start as a corporate project, and even if it had, you might be shocked to learn that the majority of contributions to projects like the Linux kernel and Mesa actually come from corporations, not individuals, right?