> their own custom [...] init system of Upstart when they could have contributed to System
upstart was developed several years, just under half a decade, before systemd even existed; it was used by Fedora for three years.
Eucalyptus vs OpenStack (ever heard of Eucalyptus?)
Bazaar vs Git (Git won)
LaunchPad vs Github (LaunchPad is alive and well, but Github won the popularity contest)
Wayland vs Mir (Wayland won)
upstart vs systemd (systemd won)
Let's see how these work out:
Juju vs Kubernetes/OpenShift (I'm aware that you can run Kubernetes on Juju, probably won't save them though)
Snap vs Flatpak (vs AppImage?)
It's sad, really. I like Ubuntu and Canonical and strongly believe in competition, but it'd really help if they didn't consistently back the wrong projects.
I can't help wonder if this will keep happening as their competition waits to see everything new Canonical chooses to back, then works to thwart it :)