'cause relevance makes the world go 'round. And pays developers to work on stuff (like display servers). Or that could be revenue, not sure since I'm confused.
More to the point: it doesn't matter at all how many users a distro has when it comes to developing software. What matters is how well it inspires the developer community to follow its lead, and how much money it has to hire developers when they don't. From what I read, Canonical is doing a poor job of the former, and they're on at best equal footing with Suse and RedHat when it comes to the latter. This isn't a clincher that "Mir will fail", but your remark that the rest of the Linux universe is "irrelevant" is a little short-sighted.
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