Then why bother?

Posted Jan 6, 2009 1:01 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Then why bother? by dlang
Parent article: Android netbook is a possibility (Inquirer)

For the record....I make it a point to consistently bash "Canonical".. not "Ubuntu" Canonical!=Ubuntu

And since bashing Canonical is what is expected of me...I'll go ahead and do just that. I'm more than happy to live up to your expectations of me. There's so very very much to find fault with in Canonical's approach to doing things.

If we are talking about trying to create a usable platform experience... it doesn't not help when corporate entities like Canonical commit to pushing experimental features into distributions they control which deliberately break the consensus based cross desktop specification work going on at freedesktop.org. Specifications which application developers rely on to form the basis of interprocess UI services.

Its perfectly fine to want to experiment with different UI approaches, but to commit to shipping that UI experiment in the community distribution you manage as a corporate entity, that impacts how multiple applications work..as a default in an OEM customized distribution...without first reaching a consensus with upstream on how to minimize disruption to existing upstream application functionality...does not help create a cohesive multi-project based "platform" environment that non-Canonical employed application developers can rely on.

-jef