> Excluding it from the desktop for one release is killing it.
No, it is delaying it from being the default on Ubuntu by 6 months.
> A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken
Really? How so? I have not noticed anything broken at all. How exactly is it broken?
> resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users
I really very much doubt most users will even notice, and I also think you severely overestimate how many of those who do notice will care, and how many of those who care who sees Mir as something negative and/or are bothered by the delay.
> Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
The point is they will eventually ship XMir, Mir and Mir-enabled toolkit versions by default, so everyone that don't take explicit steps to install a plain X server instead will be running Mir whether or not they run all their familiar apps - including X apps - on top of it.
No, it is delaying it from being the default on Ubuntu by 6 months.
> A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken
Really? How so? I have not noticed anything broken at all. How exactly is it broken?
> resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users
I really very much doubt most users will even notice, and I also think you severely overestimate how many of those who do notice will care, and how many of those who care who sees Mir as something negative and/or are bothered by the delay.
> Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
The point is they will eventually ship XMir, Mir and Mir-enabled toolkit versions by default, so everyone that don't take explicit steps to install a plain X server instead will be running Mir whether or not they run all their familiar apps - including X apps - on top of it.