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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 25, 2010 20:32 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by jspaleta
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

I generally disagree with you Jef, but in this I 100% agree.


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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 25, 2010 22:14 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]

But both Nokia and Litl actually submit things back to upstream GNOME and the various projects that GNOME uses. I am well aware there are some statistical errors with Dave Neary's GNOME census[1], but still it is a bit telling. Combined with other[2] similar[3] studies it shows a troubling picture.

Per linkedin the employee count:
nokia[6]: 23273
litl[4]: 67
canonical[5]: 316

The point I am trying to explain with completely meaningless statistics is that Nokia and Litl contribute to what the world accepts to be the meaning of the term "upstream". They work well with others and don't spin fud or make up new meanings for the word upstream.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/
[2] http://vignatti.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/x-census-for-1-9/
[3] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
[4] http://www.linkedin.com/company/litl
[5] http://www.linkedin.com/company/canonical-ltd.
[6] http://www.linkedin.com/company/nokia

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