[pjmlp]

Does not surprise me.

Many guys in FOSS tend to like Intel, but not all Intel departments are FOSS friendly.

Even the graphics division, tends to put more resources into DirectX tooling and processors like the PowerVR family, than what they contribute to X.

[thomasjames]

This is not about FOSS, it is about one man's vision to circumvent the mainstream developer community. Ubuntu chose to make the transition from pre-configuring Debian and making compiz themes for Gnome to trying its hand at systems-level programming. It would be somewhat self-assured of them to assume that all hardware vendors, who are already heavily invested in Linux, as a platform, would necessarily pick up the slack, especially when those investments did not foresee a move like Mir.

[pjmlp]

I don't say otherwise, just that Intel as a company is a corporation like any other, with contributions to FOSS also driven by internal politics.

[kbuck]

I don't think it's entirely a corporate move here. Free software contributions aren't infinite; if you have $N developers working on integrating support for display servers, then it's simple math that having to support two display servers means that you'll have $N/2 developers working on each, and will therefore get half the work done (and, since they'll probably still have to support X11 for a while, make that $N/3). Ubuntu selfishly forked Mir instead of choosing to try to use Wayland (especially when they had originally committed to using Wayland[1]), so the burden is on them here. It also doesn't help that Canonical employees were using the inclusion of XMir support as political fodder[2].

[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 [2] https://twitter.com/olliries/status/375704285083738112