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Canonical is desperate to differentiate and this make money. However, when all the code is open and free, there is no way to differentiate for the better. It'

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• jared314 13y ago
  A new display server does not differentiate an OS in anyway that would remotely make money. It is more likely they tried to use a technical solution to solve a non-technical problem (display server consensus on an old architecture).
  • rodgerd 13y ago
    A new display server under GPL3 with mandatory CLA would be an excellent way of making money if you got enough leverage that you could start charging hardware vendors if they wanted a private copy so they could avoid disclosing their driver modifications. It's same relicensing model MySQL made money with.
    • lucian1900 13y ago
      Except no one is shopping around for a display server. Lots of people were (and still are) shopping around for a DB.
  • regularfry 13y ago
    Assuming they make money on phones, it is. They can say "Look, mobile app development is just desktop app development! No special environments! Just cross-compile the Exact Same Code(tm)!" or maybe "It's Just Javascript!(tm)" and all of a sudden they've got a ready-made ecosystem of app developers who don't even need to install any new tools other than what they've already got installed on their desktops to provide content for their phones. More content -> more sales -> more money, and they must be absolutely desperate for anything that might draw developers' attention away from iOS and Android. If you start from the viewpoint that you need to provide a phone-specific display server anyway, you can see the thinking. There are bits I think are wrong with this plan, but it's coherent.