isn't the nature of Open Source to be constantly forking, iterating, and contributing new code when you think the existing stuff isn't good enough? You can alw

isn't the nature of Open Source to be constantly forking, iterating, and contributing new code when you think the existing stuff isn't good enough? You can always start from scratch if existing projects don't cut it. When talking about a windows manager (like Unity) or display manager (like Mir), starting from scratch is, financially, a pretty big decision, so you should make it an informed decision. The weird thing is that Canonical never even contacted the Wayland developers. It's weird because they should be interested in any mistakes Wayland made on their way (to not make them again), and because it's so easy in the open source community. If you find a bug in your Intel graphics driver you just go to freenode and talk to the developer that wrote that code. Same for Wayland, and most other projects. If they really want to be better than Wayland, they should learn from Wayland's mistakes, not make the same mistakes again.