Wayland Shows the IBM/Red Hat Way of Doing Things
killall, just in case someone out there still runs an instance of it
I've been using GNU/Linux for many years (well before the sister site existed) and I have a rather good perspective or basis for comparison. I know the days of OSS/Alsa-era, the pre-systemd days, I even developed with GTK nearly 25 years ago.
So when people talk about Wayland I'm generally not happy. I wrote about Wayland many times before, as did others. Remember what the founder of OpenBSD said. To quote him again: "The writing has been on the wall a very long time that some people believe their role in the ecosystem is to reduce software choice and push everyone into vertical software monocultures."
That IBM is trying to 'kill' X (or declare it dead with help from the media it pays; Phoronix played a role in this FUD for nearly a decade already!) is hardly surprising. Those of us who watched how pulseaudio (soon pipewire) has been forced on everybody, even before systemd, are all too familiar with that routine or the pertinent phases of it. Wayland is just the latest example of it.
X works. X has bugs. Sure. Wayland also has bugs. Wayland has some very severe bugs (we wrote about this 2 years ago). The "Security" FUD is also used by "Rust people". Who cares if developers cannot read Rust, right? They don't matter. They're "bigots".
This idea that innovation and novelty mean killing the "old" is misconceived and misguided. Revisit this old article: 'Appeal to Novelty' as a Lever for Proprietary Software Monopolies, Bloat (Planned Obsolescence) and More Surveillance
I wrote programs that only work with X and would not work with Wayland. I don't wish to rewrite things just to suit the business agenda of IBM. I should not have to adjust my life based on IBM's whims. Neither should you.
That IBM is trying to actually ban and cull and censor (et cetera) people who try to keep X going is grotesque but not too shocking because IBM is a malicious, conceited company which literally helped and literally profited from Hitler. IBM does not want you (or anybody else) to know that; of course it'll censor/ban people who merely bring this up.
IBM does not behave like it is based in a civilised nation. Judging by what people inside IBM say about IBM, a lot of IBM is already outsourced. Its CEO shakes hands with criminals and autocrats, so history naturally repeats itself.
Maybe IBM can ask the nazi saluting MElon (IBM's first CEO also did a nazi salute, according to the mainstream media at the time) to drown out "X" by misusing the trademark; heck, maybe he can kill the "brand" of XChat in the same way. IRC may be abandoned the moment people realise that something called "XChat" (not the IRC client) isn't secure like advertised.
You know what else is not secure?
Wayland, systemd, and Rust. █