Originally posted by Mark Shuttleworth
It really hurts when someone as prominent as yourself makes promises and a couple of years later breaks them. It hurts when division of labor is created by people with deeper pockets such as yourself, despite working toward a common goal all the while on the backs of others. The analogies between upstart/systemd only mildly apply here, most of those things are backend things, invisible to the end user. The gravity of both of these predicaments is radically different - the future of the Linux desktop is being created here. I don't remember nearly as much uproar over systemd/upstart as this.
This is why people are pissed off, not because you want to create your Mir display server, which you're free to do. They feel ripped off and cheated. And you never to this day said, "I'm sorry I fucked up". You don't even have to clean up the mess you made. Wayland will do that for you. But the least you could have done is issue a public apology for being a turncoat.
The entire reason you still can't get off it about Wayland and all this lame name calling is because you just can't admit you screwed the pooch just this once. It's all about you, yourself and Mark here, and heaven's forbid if you just said "I'm sorry" if for nothing else, to just calm the bad spirits on here and elsewhere (i.e. G+). You too will feel better about yourself once you've done it as you will be able to quit the constant jabbing ("Wayland is a repeat of X-Windows mistakes", and this latest "Wayland is the Tea-party"), save face and focus 100% on finishing Mir instead of bashing Wayland.
Most people here could care less if Mir becomes the most used, most stellar piece of software for the next 2 decades on the Linux, pardon, Ubuntu desktop..... They do however care to have you be an authentic human being, and do what's right...
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