That's not true. The BSD license is definitely present in the FSF's list of free software licenses.

It might not directly answer the question asked, but it does solve the problem. The Wayland developers have made clear that no one expects X11 to disappear from Linux distributions in the foreseeable future. Since every toolkit on Linux already supports X, you can use the X backend of whatever toolkit when running the application remotely, and the Wayland backend otherwise.

And neither can Mir.

What's that supposed to mean? Have you ever tried going to the Wayland IRC channel (#wayland on freenode) and asking? Wayland is a project developed out in the open, but you make it sound like it's a secret how exactly Wayland development proceeds. It's not.

Everything else you say in your post is fair enough, but the point about Canonical not contributing to Wayland deserves more mention than it has been getting in these discussions. It's nice to want to use Wayland, but if their only problem with it was development not going fast enough, then implementing a new display server from scratch is the exact opposite of a solution, especially when none of the Mir developers have significant prior experience working on display servers. If they wanted to have a modern display server to happen faster, the easiest and most reasonable way to accomplish that - both for Canonical's needs and for everyone else's - would be to take an active role in the development of Wayland.

The companies you mentioned all have vastly more resources and technical expertise at their disposal than Canonical does.

But the main reason that his "NIH syndrome" criticism is valid is that in all of its recent defense of MIr, Canonical has not cited any other reason for not being satisfied with Wayland. Or at least not any other reason that wasn't later retracted for being based on blatantly false claims.

Wayland actually [i]has[/i] gotten quite far, though. It's still not ready for widespread use, but there is a lot that goes into a display server, and most of that is in Wayland currently. Mir, on the other hand, is nowhere near that. Just look at the to-do list for Mir. Mir doesn't even have basic things like resizing windows or any form of window decorations yet.

That's not entirely true. If ignorance is the reason, it has to be paired with gross incompetence - they didn't bother to do their homework or even ask one of the developers about the capabilities and future direction of Wayland. Not to mention that it was beyond irresponsible to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the capabilities of Wayland without fact-checking in what they had to know would be widely disseminated. Now, even though they've retracted it all since literally every one of their claims was wrong, we have to deal with that false information being mistakenly claimed as fact in discussions like this one.

Who needs security vulnerability when you have a complete lack of services and modern IRC features?

With one or two major exceptions, those third-party games are mostly indie games that had to port to Linux in the past to be part of a Humble Indie Bundle. His point stands - there's no guarantee that Steam for Linux will produce enough game sales for the major publishers to start porting their titles to Linux.

It's much more likely that IT for both sides was handled by the "Windows corporate crowd".

Try the first line of the summary: "You may recall from last week the news item concerning FunnyJunk's extortion ..."

The meaning of that is "this is a continuation of a story that has been posted recently on Slashdot, and if you missed the earlier story, you might want to read up on it for context." That's why he included a link to the previous Slashdot post.

It's likely that the Does are supposed to be the unknown individuals that he's alleging "hacked" his site, infringed his trademark on his name with a false Twitter account, and did the other things he's claiming happened to him as a result of The Oatmeal's posting of his letter.

Although the US government is being paid by the student, I would be surprised if it makes a long-term profit from all the loans it gives with generous interest rates to students with little or no credit history. I'm not an expert on this, though.

2009 was when the number of quakes in Oklahoma jumped to more than 1000. November 5, 2011 is when the magnitude 5.6 earthquake happened.

They don't own the copyright to all of the open source Radeon code. Some of it was done by community developers or developers for Red Hat and VMware.