Richmond wrote:
Why do I get the funny feeling that Ubuntu is getting a bit too big for its
open source boots?
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/ubuntu-mir/
Of course, this could be an object lesson to those who are in the
process of releasing something
open source as to how much they continue to exert control on the thing.
Because the sky is falling?
I sincerely hope RunRev shows at least as much interest in managing the
LiveCode code base as Canonical does with Ubuntu.
Mir offers a leaner solution across a wider range of device types than
Wayland appears likely to achieve.
This takes nothing away from Wayland; the same engineers can continue to
do the same work they've been doing thus far, and it's Linux: there are
enough distros that anything of merit will find a home in at least some
of them.
But Canonical is more ambitious with Ubuntu than most projects are with
their own distros. Most distros seem content to limit themselves to the
desktop, but Ubuntu has expanded to include phones, tablets, and TVs, in
an architecture scalable and adaptable to handle just about anything
else that comes along.
By comparison, imagine if RunRev had chosen something like the WASTE
text engine as the solution to their Unicode needs. That would have
definitely helped on OS X, possibly been portable to other desktop OSes,
but likely to have been prohibitively expensive to try to use it across
all supported platforms.
So IMNSHO this who "controversy" over Wayland/Mir is an invention
unrelated to how software gets built, because the bottom line remains
the same the whole time:
It's Linux, with so many options available that anyone can choose
whatever they like to have exactly what they want at any time.
This is as true for developers as for end-users.
Canonical is simply doing what they feel is best for their distro; those
who want a fully-community-driven distro can contribute to Debian and
others.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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