On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:18:45 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:57:15PM +0000, Camale?n wrote: [...] >> I see not good technical reason for introducing the change. At least >> not nowadays. >> >> And that is one of the reasons I always fear "business decisions" (we >> should not forget that Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu) because >> "business decisions" can be founded on market/marketing issues and not >> technicalities and the latter are the only ones that should lead to >> these kind of changes. > > Don't be too down on them. Wayland and Unity might really be a good path > forward. It is a grand experiment that can only be executed > wholeheartedly by fiat, and Canonical is taking it on. We in Debian-land > get to reap the benefits of Ubuntu's experiment if they get it working > well, but don't have to deal with the upheaval until a lot of the kinks > are smoothed out and don't have to touch it at all if the experiment > fails. I call it win-win (and I also call it "better you than me").
If I were an Ubuntu user I wouldn't like to be treated as "guinea-pig" :-) Experiments are fine... for development releases and provided they are being incorporated in a logical timeframe (6 months is not what I take for "logical timeframe"). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.09.14.48...@gmail.com
