Shuttleworth stepping down as Canonical CEO [LWN.net]

Shuttleworth stepping down as Canonical CEO

Posted Dec 20, 2009 14:30 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Shuttleworth stepping down as Canonical CEO by frazier
Parent article: Shuttleworth stepping down as Canonical CEO

Jeff has got some kind of OCD, which causes him to comment on every canonical story, and often drag Canonical into comments on completely unrelated stories. Guaranteed that, for any Canonical story on LWN, at least 1/4, if not 1/2, of the comments will be from Jeff (I exaggerate somewhat, but only sligthly). His modus operandi is to ask questions, the answers to which Jeff believes are uncomfortable to Canonical.

While many no doubt respect Jeff for the energy he has put into Fedora, it is quite sad to see him also invest energy in this troll-bot-like behaviour.

It's also sad hence these meta-Jeff-OCD sub-threads arise here on LWN, of which this is not the first (and I'm sure there are many more). None of which have ever caused Jeff to usefully change his behaviour, even though they led him to somewhat acknowledge acknowledged the trollish nature of his behaviour.

Paul "When will LWN give us that jspaleta filter?" Jakma

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Shuttleworth stepping down as Canonical CEO

Posted Dec 20, 2009 23:10 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]

I don't know about others, but I thoroughly enjoy Jef's comments.

As much as in any forum, most comments on LWN are, quite frankly, noise; which is arguably a fundamental property of any news-related public communication channels. LWN is really different from most, because of its higher-than-average SNR, but there's so much to it.

Now, I find that Jef's contributions are never trivial or maliciously false, and that really makes it up for me.

I don't really understand people who seem to get touchy about his topic choices -- it's really up to him as to what to talk about, as long as he stays honest. And, as of yet, I don't have any reasons to doubt his honesty.

regards, Samium Gromoff

Jef

Posted Dec 22, 2009 9:05 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]

@paulj: Isn't there a wiki somewhere which indexes this sort of information
so that it doesn't need to be repeated in innumerable comment threads?