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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: 2) by tekk on Friday April 14 2017, @05:31PM (1 child)

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 14 2017, @05:31PM (#494092)

    To be fair when I saw the actual devs explaining it they were explaining how X didn't really/b do network transparency. The modern X stack stopped using actual X drawing commands when motif died, so all that "network transparent" X does these days is sling around big inefficient bitmaps rather than small X commands. Essentially it's equivalent to VNC but less efficient because iirc X doesn't actually compress the bitmaps it sends over the wire.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Friday April 14 2017, @06:39PM

    by sjames (2882) on Friday April 14 2017, @06:39PM (#494141) Journal

    Sure, but they were awfully reluctant to admit that that was what they meant. They knew damned well that whatever was done locally (which was bitmaps) could be as easily done over the network. Of course, you could get compression using ssh.

    Kinda like when Homer Simpson pawned his TV.

    Pawn Broker: Is it cable ready?

    Homer: Ready as she'll ever be!