Comment 315 for bug 269656

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM, jackb_guppy <email address hidden> wrote:

> Great!
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> So you are saying UBUNTU is another get rich quick scheme with FOSS??
>
> Well I guess it is time to move on again, since UBUNTU will not be
> listening to users, or their posted goals; only their pocket books.
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>
>

That is a very black & white view, which skips over the fact that canonical
-is- a mostly FOSS company making a -stack- of new useful software.

Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water. I've installed iceweasel on
my machine for now and as soon as someone (hopefully epiphany) expose the
webkit 'web inspector' as a replacement for firebug I'll cut over to that.

I was a die hard debian user back in the day, and knew some of the people
working on the early alpha, I switched over as soon as there was something
available, why? because Ubuntu was the compromise between something
extremely true to open source and open community (debian), and something
practical.

The nature of Ubuntu is that it walks a line between the cathedral and the
bazaar to produce something of both worlds, which just works, is free, open
and is polished.

You may be far to the left of this idea or far to the right, and in either
case you might be offended by some of the choices Canonical makes. The rest
of us will enjoy the working product, and take or leave packages as we
please.

--
Timothy J Stebbing