More Mir Talking Points Come Out Of Canonical

[Hamish Wilson]

Well, as far as I know, KH is the one reviewing patches to be merged, and he is employed by intel specifically to work on wayland isn't he? There is no public evidence that I know of that ARM patches have been rejected, I'm just considering that intel might use the control it has over wayland development and the better open driver to better position itself against ARM vendors. Obviously if such patches were to be indeed rejected, canonical would still be able to fork wayland. But that would put us right where we are today.

This is all a pretty big stretch without any evidence. I seriously doubt Intel has all that much power over all of Wayland's contributors.

I also don't know very well the licenses of wayland and mir, maybe someone can enlighten me. However, it is possible that mir is license wise more friendly toward blobs (which are much more common) than wayland.

I would actually say Wayland is friendlier than Mir (MIT versus CLA'd GPL).

Is intel friendly towards OSS, not doubt! But if they were really willing to listen to the community and help support other hardware vendors, they would have switched to gallium a long time ago wouldn't they?

That is more of a technical argument than a political one.

[Hamish Wilson]

Stop, Arch is surprisingly stable. You sound like a Windows user. Who wants to use Linux? Just so you can say you're leet? Pfft! Same argument, same fail. I suppose not everyone has to use the CLI if they don't want. However did you ever notice even Windows has one? Shocker I know. I like the freedom to do what I want with my machine, Linux affords me this. I think Arch also lends itself very well to those who want more than a DAD (default and dealing) distro. So I choose it because I like the control I have and prefer pacman to synaptic(gui) or apt(cli).

Side note: The bashing of Cononical for it's actions (which we learn maybe slightly distorted) is perhaps justifiable. Tearing down distros because they seem too advanced or hard for you is childish. Spreading FUD that it's impossible to install or crashes all the time is also very ignorant. Please if you're going to act this way, do the Linux world a favor and go back to Windows.

A little more florid than I would have put it, but indeed.