Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) [LWN.net]

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 18, 2011 11:31 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by rsidd
Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

The amount of effort Canonical has to put in packaging Banshee compared to its development (funded mostly by my employer, Novell, btw) - well let's say it is about 1/100.000? So they might be entitled to 1/100.000 of the income Banshee makes for the GNOME Foundation. Let's round it up and give them $1 a year, OK?

Meanwhile, they are a company, building on the efforts of Debian and the volunteers in Ubuntu. That is OK - we all build on the efforts of others. But repaying those others for their efforts by taking away their (*humble*) source of income is just dishonest and might I say *evil*.

Disclaimer: I work for Novell and support Novell's move to give the money to the GNOME Foundation instead of taking it for itself. And I find it ironic that now ANOTHER company, a competitor of us no less, comes in and takes the money WE donate to the GNOME Foundation...

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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 20, 2011 19:41 UTC (Sun) by efraim (subscriber, #65977) [Link]

I don't know how you came to this ratio 1/100.000.

In my view Ubuntu is doing the community a great service, and as such also its parent company Canonical.

Your estimate is extremely arrogant - it's like those developers who claim they are the only one doing anything useful and all those managers and, oh, salespersons are not needed.

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Mar 13, 2011 20:55 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

Banshee was already packaged on Ubuntu, for Canonical NOTHING changes. They just do what they should do - pick the best software and ship that to their users. They do their frickin' job as distro, just like all others. They should thank the Banshee developers for creating something so cool they ship it as default! Instead of taking their (little!) income away...

Banshee has many developers working on it, Canonical needs one guy 1 hour per month to get it packaged. Pretty sure my 1/100.000 is not far off.

The other stuff Canonical does like marketing and other blabla is useful - for them. Not for Banshee. If Canonical didn't exist, other distro's would ship their apps and they don't take 75%, not even the company that developed Banshee (Novell) does that in their SUSE or in openSUSE.

But let's be friendly and say Canonical has contributed to Banshee by bringing it to users - that effort is worth 75%? That is way more insulting that saying their effort is worth 1/100.000, frankly.