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OSS is an intersection of commercial and hobbyist programmers and agendas. If youre a hobbyist you may prefer to spend time working on green field rather than t
by voidfunc 10mo ago
OSS is an intersection of commercial and hobbyist programmers and agendas. If youre a hobbyist you may prefer to spend time working on green field rather than the existing. This eventually culminates in some new stuff replacing the old.
Not saying that is what happened here, but sometimes the answer is because the old one is just not fun to work on anymore.
- atherton94027 10mo agoIsn't Wayland funded by Red hat though? And Mir was funded by Canonical iirc
- jamesbelchamber 10mo ago"the people who did the work, did this" is basically the answer to most things, and I think here you're right - ultimately, working on X sucked and more people were willing to rewrite a whole new windowing system than to keep working on X. There is some interesting reasoning behind that (which I will let more learned people expand on) but since I'm not doing the work I'm pretty zen about just accepting the decisions of the people who did.