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They weren't "developers" more like a Jr intern asked to do some minor maintenance

The real work was done in the 80s/90s through a consortium of universities and corporations

Then one day, some nobody shows up and in their infinite wisdom decides: I know better than all the 100s of people before me.

And now we have to listen on and on about how this nobody was somehow a "major developer"

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The work done in the 80s and 90s was for very different hardware than now, when accelerated graphics wasn't the norm. MS made that mandatory with Aero and then Windows 8 a long time ago, Apple's been at it for even longer.

Wayland exists because, thanks to hardware innovations, there's a better way to do the job than what was possible in the 80s.

  >> Wayland exists because, thanks to hardware innovations, there's a better way to do the job than what was possible in the 80s.

Unfortunately Wayland is not a better way.

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