3v1n0
Joined 9 years ago
Joined 9 years ago
Companies relying in selling blobs have just no value now. The ones selling services and using open source models are just ahead of times.
Unless that snap allows lower level usage (services, kernel...)
I still use like that and anyone can, but normal users are the main target.
For example, in the gnome team we do the uploads first to debian then we merge them with the Ubuntu changes if any, but we try as much as possible to use the same sources for both.
Check debian salsa to see the differences.
Unity served well for years, it would have needed a rewrite anyway for the post x11 era, so indeed there have been wasted resources, but experiments are also important in technology, and many still love what was (is) the unity user experience.
> and they wasted time and effort on Mir and shuttered it in favor of Wayland
Mir is still there and it's used. It's now a Wayland compositor but it maintains its API, the different communication protocol doesn't change its purposes.
> and they wasted time and effort on Upstart and shuttered it in favor of systemd.
When Upstart started and was used no systemd existed or was designed, so it served many well for years. Not a waste.