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It seems there's similarities between Wayland and Mir:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)

"Mir, like Wayland, is built on EGL[6] and utilizes some of the infrastructure originally developed for Wayland[7] such as Mesa’s EGL implementation[6] and Jolla’s libhybris."

So why didn't Canonical just use Wayland, I thought that was their plan forward a couple of years ago?

Whatever they do I hope they don't screw up Ubuntu 12.04's excellent ability to play Steam based games.

EDIT: Read the controversy of the Wiki article, interesting insights.