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Application Development is not the whole story.Application Development is not the whole story.Posted Feb 17, 2011 12:25 UTC (Thu) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828)In reply to: Application Development is not the whole story. by grantingram Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)
My point isn't that Canonical should be doing app development or that they shouldn't be earning money from Ubuntu.
My point is that if Canonical start diverting revenue from their upstream projects, not only does that put them into a position of competing with a community they should be collaborating with, it's also a poor signal to send out to people who might want to develop apps, have them available in Ubuntu, and (shock) want to earn money off them.
This is the issue. This type of behaviour pits Canonical against other members of the community, and effectively puts them into competition with their upstreams. Rather than enlarging the market and creating value, they're attempting to grab share and destroying value. This simply is not a healthy situation.
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Application Development is not the whole story. Posted Feb 17, 2011 19:23 UTC (Thu) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link]
"My point is that if Canonical start diverting revenue from their upstream projects, not only does that put them into a position of competing with a community they should be collaborating with, it's also a poor signal to send out to people who might want to develop apps, have them available in Ubuntu, and (shock) want to earn money off them."
Exactly.
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