Re: Wayland Is Coming

On Wed, 8 May 2024 20:44:21 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 8 May 2024 14:01:35 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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And probably never will be [ready for prime time] but will probably
be adopted anyway even though its half baked crap because the
momentum of vested interests and the herds of sheep will make it
happen, just like systemd.

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Nobody controls Open Source. Proprietary software is dominated by amoral,
profit-driven megacorps, but Open Source isn’t, and never will be. Basic
economics ensures it will stay that way.

Egos, suspectability to marketing and the herd mentality exist in open source
too. If that wasn't the case Dead Rat wouldn't have been able to push
systemd as much as they did.

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It also doesn't help that the
wayland team dismiss anything thats hard to do as not required , eg
remoting.

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Wayland is designed with security in mind.

LOL!!!!

RIght, because ssh tunnelled X11 was completely insecure.

I've got a really secure computer - its disconnected from any network and
switched off most of the time. Fairly useless but 100% can't be remotely hacked!