Mark Shuttleworth on MIR
Posted: 22 Oct 2013, 10:55
 | Mark Shuttleworth - the man behind Canonical and Ubuntu - has been heavily criticized by parts of the Linux community. He believes that much of this is politics and strikes back. The "Not invented here" (NIH) criticism has also been put forward here (by me - regarding Mir) so it is time to let him defend himself. Here's what he has to say about it:
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And to put all the hue and cry into context: Mir is relevant for approximately 1% of all developers, just those who think about shell development. Every app developer will consume Mir through their toolkit. By contrast, those same outraged individuals have NIH’d just about every important piece of the stack they can get their hands on… most notably SystemD, which is hugely invasive and hardly justified. What closely to see how competitors to Canonical torture the English language in their efforts to justify how those toolkits should support Windows but not Mir. But we’ll get it done, and it will be amazing.The systemD critisism is a smart move because Linux users are very conservative and really do not like things to change to much.
I have cursed it myself from time to time - but then I found out that when you master it; you can master any Linux with it - except Ubuntu....
I will admit that I liked the one single config file in Arch (rc.conf) better though - but I will get over it.
SystemD does represent a long needed standardization in the Linux world. But it is not invented by Canonical....
And he has got that Tea Party stuff all wrong - we party with Beer
Shuttleworth is proud to be the "Ubuntu Daddy" as The Register has called him - and that he should be.
Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux known.
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