> Does Canonical have the software engineering capability to maintain a bunch of stuff (an init system, a display server) that's really unrelated to their probl

> Does Canonical have the software engineering capability to maintain a bunch of stuff (an init system, a display server) that's really unrelated to their problem (making awesome products for users)... Thats an odd statement. It implies that an init system and a display server are not building blocks of an awesome user experience. For upstart, you have to note that it was Ubuntus contender to write a modern and fast init system when there were far less mature init systems. Its main competitor (systemd) is about 4 years younger that upstart. Ignoring the whole problem about wayland, the display server is a central part for providing the user interface. So how is writing a new display server "unrelated" to providing an awesome product to the user?