SolidIce and the SPICE protocol?

We have seen Mark claim opening Launchpad for years, fact remains that it is not and that since 2006 users of Ubuntu are forced to use non-free software to report bugs, as are packagers of software that uses Launchpad. This promise is worthless at best based on prior disappointments - what would work to dispel the critisism over Launchpad would be freeing it now and additionally henceforth in all projects adhere to the release early, release often credo.

In that sense I think it's entirely fair game to compare the track record of Canonical with the track record of Red Hat (or Novell for that matter, just to hit the big 3 distro vendors). Sadly it looks rather poor, I wish it didn't since Linux would be better as a whole if it wasn't the case.

Excuse some of us for critising Canonical based on what they do and not what they say. It does not mean we want to gleefully watch Ubuntu burn, but we do want their parent company to play nice with the other children. Especially given their highly vocal CEO's multiple statements on the record as to the virtues of open development and proposals as to how the rest of us should work.