[ale] Ubuntu and the price of Unity

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> Let me sum that article up simply: the GNOME project doesn't like
> Canonical's Unity project because it might be more popular than their
> in-development "Shell" project.
>

That's not what I read. GNOME is wary because Cannonical  requires/uses a
copyright/license scheme that signs away copyright to Cannonical and allows
for closed-source proprietary code. That is very bad from a GNOME
perspective as they got started because of QT license issues with the
framework for KDE.

>
> Well, who cares? Ubuntu isn't GNOME just like it isn't Debian. They
> can do whatever the hell they please as long as it doesn't upset their
> users. If the GNOME developers don't like it, they can use a different
> distribution.
>
> On Monday, January 3, 2011, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Ubuntu and the price of Unity
> >
> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Ubuntu-and-the-price-of-Unity-1156110.html
> >
> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/23yaw8n
> >
> > keith
>
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