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Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control"

posted by n1 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the politics dept.

Grishnakh writes:

After announcing his company was abandoning Unity for GNOME, Shuttleworth posted a thank-you note to the Unity community Friday on Google Plus, but added on Saturday:

"I used to think that it was a privilege to serve people who also loved the idea of service, but now I think many members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types who love to hate on whatever is mainstream. When Windows was mainstream they hated on it. Rationally, Windows does many things well and deserves respect for those. And when Canonical went mainstream, it became the focus of irrational hatred too. The very same muppets would write about how terrible it was that IOS/Android had no competition and then how terrible it was that Canonical was investing in (free software!) compositing and convergence. Fuck that shit."

"The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well. It became a political topic as irrational as climate change or gun control, where being on one side or the other was a sign of tribal allegiance. We have a problem in the community when people choose to hate free software instead of loving that someone cares enough to take their life's work and make it freely available."

Shuttleworth says that "I came to be disgusted with the hate" on Canonical's display server Mir, saying it "changed my opinion of the free software community."

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:31AM (#492134)

    Things like XCB or SYNC extension were created, yet we have to do them over again. And other things that were also impossible seem to be proving perfectly possible, because the issue is with the code, not the protocol. Xpra and firejail give you reconnects and security so other programs can't poke at the server... things "experts" claimed were insolvable and required a full rewrite.

    FOSS has clearly gone from volunteer to corporate in last ~20 years, and then jobs must be justified. MS & Apple are in a similar place, BTW, they have to "invent" all kind of new crap. It's hard to admit things are mostly done and the last things are hard and not very profitable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:43PM (#492246)
    How is firejail with xpra working for you? I tried it when firejail first started supporting xpra, but my main use case was jailing a web browser, and it was too slow to play even SD youtube video without stuttering.