Their fascination with all things from that west coast forbidden fruit company is a dead giveaway.  When they show up at a Linux/Open Source conference with their Macbook and then proceed to show Linux running in a VM to show $COOL_FEATURE, it's another dead giveaway that they're not of, by, or for the community.  Or, more worrying, they respond to a bug report with, "What's an Xfce?"

They are paid hacks, doing what they're paid to do and trying to pass themselves off as members of the community.  There is now a line that must be drawn between the community as we've known it and those who are something else (I'm not sure what to call them).  To be sure, I have no problem with being paid to develop Free Software, so long as such software fits the philosophy and spirit of The Unix Way.  When it follows some other way, especially in the base system, a user desktop app not so much, then it's time to call its usefulness into question.

I agree with GoLinux as I'm not ready to give Linux up for a long while yet.  I've installed FreeBSD a few times in a VM and was always put off by the way the screen fonts and such seemed to never work with Midnight Commander and such.  I didn't ever spend enough time with it to work out those issues.  I even tried Debian kFreeBSD once as well.  This was back when the SCO lawsuit was raging in full fury, so quite some time ago.

For those that find *BSD useful, more power to you.  I'm not going to argue.  I've also jumped back into Slackware for some tasks.  I think a person should use two or three (or more) distributions regularly.  I've often learned things on one that can be generally applicable to another.  Plus, a broader base of knowledge is helpful when failures happen.

I have adopted a workflow on this desktop that requires the support of Zaphodheads of X11.  Will Wayland have any such support?  It seems the cool kids want to have some massive desktop extended across several monitors.  That is of little interest to me as I make use of the workspaces in Xfce.  With two desktops through Zaphodheads I have a total of eight workspaces on two independent desktops.  The best part is that when I switch a workspace on Screen0, the workspace on Screen1 doesn't change.  This allows me to have an editor open on Screen1 Workspace 4 while I use Firefox on Screen0 and Workspace 2 or read mail on Screen0 Workspace 3.  With an extended desktops all monitors are on the current workspace, which just doesn't fit what I want to do.

Support for odd cases like this is what makes X11 so powerful.  I'm not sure the present developers even understand this.