Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu [LWN.net]

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 9:51 UTC (Tue) by stevan (guest, #4342)
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

A word of thanks to Jonathan for sticking with this work over the years, and commiserations on the recent accident. Jonathan is one of the few free software developers I have been able to thank personally for the fruits we all enjoy, at an event in Edinburgh some years ago, and his humble surprise at being thanked by a stranger was a lesson.

Cheers

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Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 14:44 UTC (Tue) by nhasan (guest, #1699) [Link] (2 responses)

I met Jonathan at the KDE4 launch event at Google in 2007. He is a great guy and I hope he gets time to continue to work on Kubuntu. I would like to thank him for his outstanding work.

BTW, in retrospect, it seems that his 6-month rotation to the bzr team was just a trial run to see if Kubuntu can survive without him. I guess the Kubuntu guys did well :)

P.S. Jonathan, thanks for the Irn-Bru you shared with me :)

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 17:59 UTC (Tue) by jriddell (subscriber, #3916) [Link] (1 responses)

"BTW, in retrospect, it seems that his 6-month rotation to the bzr team was just a trial run to see if Kubuntu can survive without him. I guess the Kubuntu guys did well :)"

It's unrelated but that it managed without me for 11.10 is a good sign for the future

"P.S. Jonathan, thanks for the Irn-Bru you shared with me :)"

You're welcome, plenty more of that here in Scotland :)

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 18:50 UTC (Tue) by nhasan (guest, #1699) [Link]

Anytime Jonathan. If you happen to be in the NY/NJ area anytime, give me a nudge.