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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: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:46AM
Like sports fans... Cam High North sucks, only Cam High West rules! Modern tribalism, because we're low on real wars.
Nobody was forced by anyone to use Wayland or Mir or X. Don't like it? Pick another of 600 distros... Some of which have 99% of the same components, except the one you don't want.
I couldn't stand Unity, so I run Mint Cinnamon. No need to insult anyone about it, especially Canonical, which makes and freely distributes most of the stuff under that hood.