I am not sure why you think rewriting in a different way is the solution. One could also refactor and fix bugs (which is being done).

For example the implementation of the core X protocol has been described as good by the guy who found these bugs (because
bugs have already been fixed in the past). New code will not automatically be better: E.g. compare his comments about Qt and KDE.

From looking at it superficially, Wayland seems to be a pretty good code quality though. I am just not too much a fan of breaking
compatibility with the on-the-wire protocol of X.

Yes.

Why can't you use ssh -X ?

Yes, most Linux distributions seem to have used -tcp nolisten for quite a while. ssh -X still works fine and is very useful (IMHO).

Original story:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
CCC talk:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/con...

You understanding of economics is poor. You also missed the main point: Externalities usually affect others than those who benefit from cheaper prices.

> It's not to anyone's detriment other than the person spending.
False premise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Ok, I try again.

Of course the reflections are real. The movement is not real.

They are real, but the movement is not. There is no movement of anything - because the reflections you see at different times are different reflections. They are just synchronized in some way to make it appear as there were moving - in other words: it is an illusion. Different things appearing at different places at different times is not movement. Do you know the story of the Hare and the Hedgehog?

I would say there is nothing which moves - atleast nothing physical. There are *different* things happening synchronized in a way that there is the appearance of motion. But talking about "motion" depends on an observer who synthesizes these different events into a motion of a single logical object. Similar to how a mouse pointer moves on a screen. Nothing actually moves. This is simply an illusion, not "propagation of non-information".

There is actually nothing which travels. Imaging you turn on lights one-by-one in a chain of lights. It would appear as if the light moves. Ofcourse this apparent movement can be made to be faster than the speed of light.

Wow, grow up.

I think you read "That means if we still care for those non-Linux platforms replacements have to be written." a bit wrong.

And no, I think he proposes exactly what people are complaining about: Gnome should depend on some new random interfaces systemd invents to solve some minor problems in a new incompatible way.

I don't want my machine configured through d-bus interfaces which talk to a set of new pointless daemons. And personally, I think all these dbus new interfaces are complete crap.

Apparently this has been encouraged by systemd developesr: https://mail.gnome.org/archive...

In all seriousness, if there are parts in my system for which I do not know what it is good for, I want to be able to remove it.

If gnome components depend specifically on systemd this seems to imply that there are no well-defined interfaces and the code is coupled, this has nothing to do with linking vs RPC over dbus.