<p>Thanks for the link. I know many ale's have chugged the ubuntu koolaid so appologies upfront.<br>
Cannonical is desperatly trying to justify their existsnce as a business entity. RedHat is the 800 pound gorilla in the room of non-microsoft platforms. RH "fractured" the community with their support of gnome over kde. They didn't go after kde and try and break it. Cannonical needs a history lesson in open source projects. <br>
If something doesn't work the way you want it to, use the open source way then innovate and present a solution path to the community. It worked for gnome in the past. <br>
Ubuntu seems to be focused on "improve the user experience for Ubuntu " often at the expense of the open source community at large. They need to learn that they are just an offshoot of Debian that has cash for marketing and they are no where near being in charge. <br>
The patches Ubuntu makes to the user interface only work for Ubuntu builds and not generically for Debian. They would like to be RedHat but they lack the vision and sense of community that has driven RedHat and Debian and Slackware for years. Cannonical is the first non-innovator business to enter the open source market that has actually managed to gain some traction. They need to mature a lot and recognize that without the marketing cash they would only be another rebranding bit player. Ubuntu has always struck me like the sleazy groups that sell a cd of OpenOffice.org as a product they make for $25. <br>
Cannonical has not yet earned the privilege and responsibility to sit at the table with Debian and RedHat and SuSE and Slackware (or even Mandriva, Gentoo or Knoppix). They have a long way to go to catch up to they likes of their predecessor distro and arrogance will not accelerate their actual importance.<br>
I personally look forward to their implosion and subsequent decline into has-been status. It can't happen soon enough soon enough for me and, I also think, the open source community at large.</p>
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