Re: Wayland or X11, was: Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On 6/17/25 23:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:35:28 +0100, chrisq wrote:
 

Looks political, in the same way that I saw systemd as a power grab by
RedHat.

 The number one rule for any good conspiracy theory: “Cui bono?” aka “Who
benefits?”, aka “Follow the money”.
 What kind of business model is it for Red Hat to force competitors into
using its products for free? Even assuming it has the kind of market
muscle to achieve that, which it doesn’t.

Good try, but Red Hat is now IBM, so you have ask yourself, is it good
that any single, powerful organisation should have so much influence over the future direction of Linux ?. Since no mainstream Linux will run
without systemd in place, I would say that the trojan horse has achieved its objective.
As for money, Red Hat, Suse and others, all make good money from their
support services, and are doing very well thanks. Good luck to them,
but it was easier for me to dump Linux and run FreeBSD, which has zfs root options at boot / install time, and is a far more professional and
stable looking OS.
Linus is now just a good windows replacement, but would never use it for
serious work now. Far too much dross and trying to be all things to all
men.
I notice that you don't address the comment about code quality, but
perhaps that doesn't matter anymore.
Chris