[OT] Slugworth

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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