Canonical wants to replace X.org with Wayland

[viking60]

Canonical to replace X.org

In his Blog Mark Shuttleworth has decided to go for Weyland: We considered and spoke with several proprietary options, on the basis that they might be persuaded to open source their work for a new push, and we evaluated the cost of building a new display manager, informed by the lessons learned in Wayland. We came to the conclusion that any such effort would only create a hard split in the world which wasn’t worth the cost of having done it. There are issues with Wayland, but they seem to be solveable, we’d rather be part of solving them than chasing a better alternative. So Wayland it is

[dedanna1029]

W... T... F.

[dedanna1029]

Y'know, I'm beginning to wonder if they are moving to for-pay... with the path moving away from traditional conventions... it sets them up well to be a for-pay distro... just a thought.

[viking60]

Some of Canonicals moves are clearly going towards exclusive control. The only promise they made is that it always will be free. But that does not mean that they want to share.
Could be interesting when selling the company later down the road.....To someone who has not promised that it is going to be free.

[dedanna1029]

Exactly...