Comment 30 for bug 974480
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| Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote Re: [Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete | #30 |
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On 02/09/2013 01:42 PM, Paddy Landau wrote:
> But what about other developers who do not know or care about Ubuntu?
We can't do a great job supporting apps from developers who do not know
or care about Ubuntu. Others may offer to do a mediocre job of that for
you. We have an amazing community of developers who are building amazing
apps - by all means join us, but making demands doesn't work around here.
> As Niels Bohr said, "Prediction is very difficult, especially
> about the future."
About the past, however, we can be very clear. And the whitelist is most
definitely in the past, as we promised in 2009.
> 4. There are some well-respected and popular applications (such as
> TrueCrypt) that will no longer work when 13.04 comes around. Imagine the
> backlash. It's easy to say, "Oh, well, the application developers should
> change their code", but seriously, Canonical does not employ them. We
> depend on their goodwill and their time (not all developers are paid for
> their work).
You are depending on my goodwill and time right now ;)
Mark