Shuttleworth: Mistakes made and addressed
Shuttleworth: Mistakes made and addressed
Mark Shuttleworth writes about the
fixubuntu.com takedown notice incident. "Last week, the
less-than-a-month-at-Canonical new guy sent out the toughest template
letter to the folks behind a 'sucks' site. Now, that was not a decision
based on policy or guidance; as I said, Canonical’s trademark policy is
unusually generous relative to corporate norms in explicitly allowing for
this sort of usage. It was a mistake, and there is no question that the
various people in the line of responsibility know and agree that it was a
mistake. It was no different, however, than a bug in a line of code, which
I think most developers would agree happens to the best of us. It just
happened to be, in that analogy, a zero-day remote root bug.
"
There's also an apology for the "open source tea party" remark.