It's not as if Canonical's approach was exactly uncontroversial either. My reaction to the Mir announcement was not exactly that I was overwhelmed by warm fuzzi

It's not as if Canonical's approach was exactly uncontroversial either. My reaction to the Mir announcement was not exactly that I was overwhelmed by warm fuzzies, to put it that way, because I think they should collaborate on Wayland rather than doing their own thing for something as central as the display server.