[pbreit]

Diffusing resources. In this case one good option might be better than 2 mediocre options.

[shock]

It doesn't automatically follow that all the developers that were working on Unity will now be working on Gnome.

[cat199]

Am not OP, but this is more than unity v gnome -

it is wayland vs mir, which had the potential to much more radically fragment linux GUI applications over the long run..

[phkahler]

No, but we can hope some of them will.