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by acgkmopvvgvmgv 2070 days ago
Canonical announced Mir out of nowhere in an attempt to gain control just like they are trying now with Snap. After the announcement of Mir their developers went to IRC and made abundantly clear they had no idea how Wayland works and that Mir was useless. Where is Mir now? Using Wayland.

People who were in the fence about supporting Wayland were now even more convinced they should ignore it. That's one of the reasons a decade later you still have this much FUD.
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Avamander 2070 days ago
> Where is Mir now? Using Wayland.

It could have not gone that way. Now we've got two equally bad alternatives out there.

> That's one of the reasons a decade later you still have this much FUD.

I don't think you know what FUD means.

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acgkmopvvgvmgv 2070 days ago
Nice ignore the part where they realized Mir was useless. They even went on an edit spree in their wiki page.

If Mir was so good and superior they would just keep developing it. Isn't that obvious? If the company who already spent all this dev time aka money on Mir doesn't believe in it, why would anybody else? They were even eating their own dog food and had some major industry pull at their disposal. The answer is they fucked it up.

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wander_homer 2069 days ago
> If Mir was so good and superior they would just keep developing it. Isn't that obvious? If the company who already spent all this dev time aka money on Mir doesn't believe in it, why would anybody else?

Not that I care or know a lot about Mir, but do you seriously believe that it was always the best technology that became successful and triumphed over its competitors?

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Avamander 2069 days ago
> Nice ignore the part where they realized Mir was useless.

> If Mir was so good and superior they would just keep developing it. Isn't that obvious?

No, that's an arbitrary conclusion you've made. There are multiple reasons why a project might be killed, even if it's a good one. Canonical killed Ubuntu Touch but now it's gaining traction again because we have things like the Librem5 and PinePhone. Premature if you ask me but it makes sense as a business decision.

If we look across industry, would you say killing Google Reader was because it was inferior to others? I wouldn't.

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