The point is, since Wayland is dragging its feet (given that it has so damn much on its plate, to be an X replacement), the best practice would have been to contribute upstream to the Wayland project. They certainly have the people and resources to turn that project around. That would have set the entire GNU/Linux world on the right track, and everyone would be on the same page. Instead, they insist on going their own way as usual. But at least Mir is GPLv3. That's the silver lining. Who knows, maybe Mir WILL become the standard in a few years, and Wayland will be scrapped.

And Unity is already getting rewritten for the umpteenth time. I maintain that there was no reason for Ubuntu not to simply have a customized GNOME 3 Shell. The two are similar enough, and Shell did come first: http://www.happyassassin.net/2013/03/11/dear-mark-shuttleworth-please-tell-the-truth/

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