Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:18:45 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:57:15PM +0000, Camale?n wrote: [...]
>> I see not good technical reason for introducing the change. At least
>> not nowadays.
>>
>> And that is one of the reasons I always fear "business decisions" (we
>> should not forget that Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu) because
>> "business decisions" can be founded on market/marketing issues and not
>> technicalities and the latter are the only ones that should lead to
>> these kind of changes.
>
> Don't be too down on them. Wayland and Unity might really be a good path
> forward. It is a grand experiment that can only be executed
> wholeheartedly by fiat, and Canonical is taking it on. We in Debian-land
> get to reap the benefits of Ubuntu's experiment if they get it working
> well, but don't have to deal with the upheaval until a lot of the kinks
> are smoothed out and don't have to touch it at all if the experiment
> fails. I call it win-win (and I also call it "better you than me").
If I were an Ubuntu user I wouldn't like to be treated as "guinea-pig" :-)
Experiments are fine... for development releases and provided they are
being incorporated in a logical timeframe (6 months is not what I take
for "logical timeframe").
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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