Wow... Unity, Mir, Ubuntu phone/tablet all going bye bye

[Matthew Crews]

Remind us what Snappy is. I think I know, but I'm not sure.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 13:22 Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org> wrote:

>
> Nathan @ 2017-04-06 01:35 GMT:
>
> > On 2017-04-05 14:02, Brian Cluff wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a little split.  While ultimately I think that not having Unity
> >> around will better focus development at a more common level; it's sad
> >> to see so much development time and energy spend on something just to
> >> have it abandoned.  Hopefully the good parts of Unity will make it
> >> into other projects so that they can live on.
> >
> >
> > It's interesting that you say that. It seems to me we (people in
> > general) have really bad memories. Didn't they ultimately decide to fork
> > and leave Gnome because the developers of Gnome refused to work with and
> > or cooperate with the Canonical guys? The Gnome people haven't changed
> > one bit, so Canonical must have forgotten and they suddenly think the
> > Gnome guys will welcome their code bits? I don't see that happening at
> > all. It is a shame the development will be lost, and more of a shame
> > that future development will just be a complete waste.
> >
>
> Is there a link to this? Seeing as the gnome project seems to get along
> with every other distro I'm not sure the problem was on their end.
>
> With Unity, Mir, and Upstart being canned, any thoughts on whether
> snappy will survive?
>
> >
> >
> >> Too bad they couldn't have decided to shift to KDE... but that's just
> >> my own self service opinion. :-)
> >
> > I am a proud Gnome hater. I am an even prouder KDE supporter, so I
> > second your opinion!
>
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