I do welcome the news, although I’m sad about Ubuntu Phone not happening. And @ThanosApostolou’s thoughts on Wayland echo mine.
Mark Shuttleworth: “What the Unity8 team has delivered so far is beautiful, usable and solid, but I respect that markets, and community, ultimately decide which products grow and which disappear.”
Hear, hear! Looks like Canonical finally found a cure for their NIH syndrome.
ALSO:
@wimpy in “Wimpy has a new job” (Sep 16,2016):
“In my new role I will be working on Unity 7 and Unity 8 as my day job.”
I guess Wimpy’s job description just changed. 