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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 20, 2013 22:51 UTC (Wed) by Serge (guest, #84957)
In reply to: Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland by mmarq
Parent article: Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

> If wayland will be such upper duper it will win without much effort... if not, just history repeating itself...

If only things were that simple...

The problem is that Wayland can win even being much worse than X.Org. Remember OS/2, "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows"? Windows was no better than OS/2, still it won. :)


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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 21, 2013 8:49 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Actually Windows OS/2 popularity grew significantly when OS/2 3.0 Warp was released (especially in some countries like Germany). But then contract expired and IBM had no right to create OS/2 for Windows 95 which sealed it's fate.

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