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The idea of Wayland growing and becoming a more usable platform sound terrific. The troubling part about this is ubuntu's history of doing what's good for ubuntu.

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I think you're confusing http://unity3d.com/ with https://launchpad.net/unity. Unity desktop is GPL3 / LGPL3.

Please upvote this guy while you egg me on the face.

BLOODY HELL! What a relief!

But can you blame me given the name and purpose proximity? :-/

I dont think the Unity shell and Unity game platform are in any way related. Am i wrong? EDIT: Sorry, I thought I was the only one pointing out the error but looks like I formed part of a mob. Anyway, it's an easy mistake to make, you can hardly be blamed for not following every little detail of Ubuntu and the things that run on it :)

I have already admitted to my error elsewhere, but just for the sake of intellectual honesty .. I do think Unity3D is somewhat of an under-appreciated technology.

Ubuntu Unity is a desktop shell replacement and has nothing to do with the Unity game development platform.

Or was this a joke and I just wooshed it?

Nope, not a joke. I am really that stupid.

Either I'm confused or you are: I was under the impression that when they talk about Unity they mean a replacement shell for Gnome and not the web plugin. Or is this a different conversation?

Why is it troubling for a company or organization to do what's in their best interest?

Ubuntu's goals do not seem to be nefarious, and almost everything they're pushing for the community is open-source, except Ubuntu One and the Software Center ability to purchase apps.

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