They are terrified, because it would mean more work for them and less advancement of the linux graphics stack. Having three display servers ( Xorg, Wayland, Mir) increases the amount of code paths everything and everyone has to deal with.

Its not trivial as Robert suggested, and more importantly, it doesn't increase Robert's workload.

If there is one thing that's really annoying, its someone telling you how easy your really difficult job is. So I understand the frustration apparent in the kde blogs.

No, its a fancy name for a super fancy, much improved chroot.

Now that's a good idea. Use voice recognition, and punish them in game.

Frankly, that's a BS answer as well. Other distros test. Are there any metrics that show this "Just works" in detail? If not, then its no better than those scam adds that promise one weird trick to solve your weight issue that doctors hate.

Which company? The Bank or the ATM builder? There are only so many ATM providers, I can only kind of blame banks. The ATM providers, should pay for this. Banks should switch away from DIebold and the like that have used Windows XP for so long.

Of course, that's a BS answer. Its not like Debian is the only distro that "Tests". You might as well say its a better operating system because it has "Codes". Or "uses a cpu". Its bland, non-descriptive and utterly useless as a comment.

Its not like debian users are the only ones guilty of this kind of worthless praise. So, I'm not beating up on debian users, just everyone who makes similar statements.

I've always been kind of confused by statements like that. "Just plain worked". The implication is that others don't just plain work. Well, what does debian not do that others do that make them not just plain work?

Yeah, way out of the loop. Maybe wayland is the latest craze, bue Enlightenment is old school. It was for a long time the year of the linux desktop hope. People here used to call linux desktops ugly. Then someone would chime in about how beautiful enlightenment was. So its kind of burned into the linux desktop nerd's memory.

Wayland has been discussed for at lest 4-5 years now.

Hawaii was the first, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

https://plus.google.com/106265...

Responding to my own post. Mark explained himself on Google plus (can't link to it directly but look for Jon Masters post about annoying a billionaire) :

"SBSA did not specify ACPI or any other crapware, and we were happy to support a standards-based approach. I think it's a poor effort if we can't achieve the goal of standards in a more modern, secure, open way."

So it appears that he supported one standardization effort, but it didn't specify ACPI. I don't know what the truth is as the relevant documents aren't public. Mark also claims that he did propose an alternative approach that would still allow a single kernel but not ACPI. Not sure how specific it was, or if it was anything beyond " Lets have the kernel guys do it!".

Yes, there are many fears of what a government could do to gain access. There is no way to avoid it currently. Saying ACPI has the potential for problems doesn't add anything new to the conversation that's been going on for years.

I'm guessing someone just informed him what his company agreed to, or he's gone a bit crazy.

Its already been decided by the industry that its going to be ACPI.

And Canonical helped desgin it... with ACPI in it

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

So I don't understand why Mark is suddenly against it. Sudden change of heart leading Ubuntu to be non compatible with other linux operating systems? Again? I don't get it.

So when did you finally decide to admit you were the founder of bitcoin?
Was that before or after you stopped beating your wife?

Well, yeah thats the way it is for the majority of schools. There are obviously some situations where that is not the case, like Chicago, where the mayor runs the schools. Or my school district when I was growing up, where we were being run by a federal judge due to decades of separate and very unequal education by race.