No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10

Posted Oct 3, 2013 21:31 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Google has pretty much no real concern whether Android gets broader uptake in the wider Linux development world.

It does, it does. And it gets said uptake. E.g., there used to be pretty diverse and wild world of embedded systems - yet today Android is there and it's slowly crushing incumbents.

When you have large enough ecosystem developers will come—like kernel developers did.

The one thing Google does not do is playing favorites: “uptake in the wider Linux development world” is important but of course “uptake in the wider gamedev development world” is important too and “uptake in the wider mobile apps development world” is even more important. Not because Google hates “the wider Linux development world” but because “the wider Linux development world” is actually smaller than “gamedev development world” and much smaller than “mobile apps development world”.

You can call it successful anyway, but that's not the kind I meant.

Why not? What kind of “success” you've meant? I'm not jeering at you, that's a honest question. Usually success of a given endeavour is measured in monetary terms, but it's pretty poor measure for open source platforms thus I tend to think more in terms of “number of users” or may be more of a “percentage of users” (not many users use Linux on supercomputers, but it's still a success since most users who do anything with supercomputers at all do that with Linux nowadays). If you don't like that criteria then offer your own… with explanation for why do you think this must be measure of success.