Comment 45 for bug 974480

Maybe I'm missing the benefits of this change, but from my viewpoint, this change (1) removes choice and (2) lacks any utility or benefit; other than to draw a line to divide those that support Ubuntu from those that don't. Sounds a lot like Apple or Microsoft, or maybe George Bush: "My way or the highway." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_either_with_us,_or_against_us -- but it doesn't come accross like community.

@Mark Shuttleworth: I'm sure many of us on this thread know and love Unity and have tons of respect for the vision of the Unity desktop. However, this change seems designed to force developers to choose the Ubuntu way without regard to its affect on end users. Obviously it will break more than only the Java/Wine applications that have now been hard coded to work with Unity. Please tell us there's more to the story besides "we told you (years ago) this was our plan, deal with it."

Maybe whats missing in the communication is something like: We're hoping that if we enact this change now, it'll bring to light the applications that need to be fixed, and together we'll be able to fix them by the time we get to 14.04 LTS. That would make sense to me, but it sure isn't implied.

By the way, kudos to #42 @Jason ... aka timekiller++ for bringing back choice and doing what community always does.