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Getting both portability and innovation

Getting both portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 0:06 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Getting both portability and innovation by einstein
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

The death isn't going to come from lack of X11 support in the system, though. It's going to come when apps are written for Wayland rather than X11. Yes, legacy apps will still work with network transparency, but all the development effort will be done on apps that depend on Wayland-only features. The stuff that works over the network will die a slow death from bitrot.


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Getting both portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 9:34 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]

Exactly! And pixel scraping won't work too well, when there's no desktop to scrape pixels off.

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