Comment 115 for bug 882274

Oops! I'm embarrassed: in my previous comment (112) I refer to "the Mark." It is a typo; I simply meant "Mark." Unfortunately, the typo is suggestive of the angle of criticism that sees Unity as Mark's ego trip. I'll state clearly that I firmly reject such criticism. I see no evidence that any of the problems are driven by Mark or anybody else's inflated sense of importance.

All that's going on is the usual mess that inflicts large-scale projects: people get overly focused on their specific roles and cultivate necessary blind spots over other parts of the project. In this case, the blind spot covers Ubuntu's "early adopters" and their need for transparency. The only healthy way to deal with such problems is to bring them into the open, discuss them as broadly as possible, and have the leadership cultivate anti-mechanisms that intentionally shine light on the blind spots.