Ubuntu != Canonical

Posted Aug 10, 2010 12:15 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588)
In reply to: Ubuntu != Canonical by pboddie
Parent article: Ubuntu: "We have no plans to fork GNOME" (derStandard.at)

Give it a rest... Without Canonical who employs the vast majority of core Ubuntu developers and maintains control over launchpad, Ubuntu would die. Sure people would try to keep it alive, but it would fizzle and then pop.

The things like Ubuntu One and the Rhythmbox UbuntuOne music store are not on a "special iso". They are in the default Ubuntu install. In _fact_ they even took things such as the GNOME MagnaTune Rhythmbox plugin, which has a referrer id for GNOME and changed the referrer id to one of thier own. This means that the profits from music sales go to them and not to the GNOME Foundation.

Even if it is a pretty and easy to use distribution (I like notify-osd), Ubuntu does not play well with others. The kicking and screaming from Mark, Jono, and company just further solidifies that fact in my mind.

- ranted from my Ubuntu desktop

Ubuntu != Canonical

Posted Aug 10, 2010 15:23 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

Yes, I guess I probably should give sarcasm a rest in any first paragraph. The other paragraphs were worth reading, too, albeit not for any content with detectable levels of sarcasm.