Fail.

How I would note to Mark Shuttleworth:

Stated:
This is a flawed perspective in so many ways.

• Community could have been onboarded.
• That alone would have made it possible for
  Industry to have been persuaded.
• Your alpha community is your best sales force.

The mistakes, more than just a single point of failure,
(or even this brief list)
are collectively what ended this effort before it even had a chance.

• Killing Multitasking is like
  amputating your legs before a marathon.
  Easy to arrange, but how daft was that ?
  The lack of multitasking ended interest
  that could have driven much more developer participation.
  
  
• More community is lost because
  the sourcecode was mollycoddled to the point
  where participation requires an act of god.
  We who would help are left standing outside the gate of
  'create yet another login account ++ password and then!
  - establish the credibility of who we are and what we would contribute'.
  That may fit the perversion of opensource you live by,
  but it fails the definition of the opensource others of us strive for:
  

  "The open-source model is a decentralized development model that
  encourages open collaboration."

• Mir could have succeeded if egos involved had not
  pissed off everyone else in the linux universe with unbridled arrogance.
  

What the Unity8 team has delivered so far is glamorous crippleware
lacking the simple ability to cooperate with anything
created by anyone simply coding for the rest of the linux universe.

Touch was not true-spirited opensource,
Mir does not collaborate,
and UT cannot even chew gum and walk at the same time.


Not wanting to demean Shuttleworth or whoever:
as flawed as the effort was,
the fact that they even made the effort is truly appreciable.
Whatever else they may have earned,
maybe some of us can leave the derision behind now.
( Thanks for showing everyone the way not forward ? )


Posting it here for posterity,
knowing that it is safely hidden away
from the frothing hordes over on ubuntu.com

Edit:
I was wrong (and I am quite okay with admitting it!)
about Ubuntu ignoring their MIR issues,
and that alone gives hope for the future