[campnic]

What make one project superior to the other, besides your opinion? Open source is darwinian. If one project proves its superiority, development will shift and other projects will change. I would think that, as a hacker community, we could accept that.

[BHSPitMonkey]

It's not /exactly/ darwinian when one project is being driven by an organization with clout and corporate partnerships. If you're Nvidia/AMD/Intel, which project would you be more receptive toward throwing your weight behind? The rinky-dinky band of Linux hackers with good intentions, or Canonical?

What the manufacturers decide to do is critical, and I promise you they aren't taking some kind of meritocratic open-source approach to evaluating where to place their resources.

[batgaijin]

First, I mean superior to X, not other hypothetical versions of wayland.

I am worried that the manpower will be divided and that minor decisions now will fuck up cross communal efforts. That's a reasonable belief.

[campnic]

It is a reasonable belief. And I'm not criticizing you for having it. Still, this process has repeated itself for a long time. Its not always fast and the best doesn't always win, but its how things seem to work.