In case anyone wants to go more in-depth into the inner workings of an introvert, I highly recommend the book "Introvert Power" by Laurie Helgoe. The article sums up most of the basic points pretty nicely though.
"You do realize that the Wayland came from devs working for Red Hat right?"
I did mention that Ubuntu didn't write that code, so yes, I'm aware of that. Kristian Høgsberg, the original author, was working for Red Hat at the time he started the project. I don't know how much dev time Red Hat currently contributes in the current state of Wayland, if any.
In any case, the only ones actively pushing for Wayland use are the Ubuntu devs. Fedora has half-heartedly implied that it will use it at some point in the future. Maybe.
To be fair, Ubuntu isn't really in the business of making changes
Tell that to the Unity team. Or look at the app indicators. Or notify-osd. Or wait until Wayland hits. This last one isn't Ubuntu code, but it's still a change they're pushing for.
Really, Ubuntu writes a decent amount of code and I think it's doing the distribution a disservice not to mention this.
Ahh... Ubuntu. I've been using Linux since pretty much forever and I've gone through Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, you name it.
Sure, Ubuntu has its fair share of idiosyncrasies, not to mention idiotic bits and a... peculiar developer community, to say the least, but on the whole it manages to combine the flexibility and openness of Linux with some of the nicer aspects of closed platforms like OS X.