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OpenOffice is rotting in its grave, MySQL is dead and Java is soon to follow. Microsoft invented 3E and Oracle has perfected it.

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Are you serious? Well, the one and only Canonical's real achievement to date is maintaining a popular Linux distro for dummies. Since the distro is heavily based on Debian anyway, it's not a big...

Not sure, probably he was born that way.

GPL doesn't have a clause that would require us to like Canonical or wish them well. It's not about licensing, it's about their treatment of the community and about them being jerks for the sake of...

Unless you mean upstart/Unity which are a dubious contributions at best, Ubuntu has always been a Debian derivative. There's nothing in it you couldn't get with any other distro.


And other banks...

That's mostly just because of LP's personality. Linus has charisma, RMS has presence of mind, LP has neither. Nor does he have enough common sense to keep away from drama. I dislike him myself but,...

You should not think for a second that users are stuck with Ubuntu/Windows/... because the software and ecosystem fit their needs most. Users don't know squat about ecosystems. They use Windows...

In retrospect it was just one of many preparations for Unity. And that's why they were so adamant about it. The whole buttons-on-the-left issue was important because it clearly denoted the watershed...

When they outsource tech support to the community (forums), it's OK. When the community wants to have a say, it's not.

Like I said, at this point Canonical wants to make money one way or another. Some of us might think that spyware, Mir and DRM are the worst things that could happen to a popular Linux distro but...

I sincerely hope that Valve will use X.Org and that others will follow suit. Even if this will postpone our migration to Wayland for a decade. It's a small price to pay to see Canonical crash and...

You mean like everyone uses Unity today? /facepalm


Yeah, for example by adding spyware/adware to their own half-baked DE.

To be honest I already hope they'll soon fork kernel (for the sake of completeness) close the sources of their own code and leave FLOSS and Linux be.

I lol'd so hard I almost cried.


Not to mention that Ubuntu at its core is but a Debian derivative. In fact you can thank Debian maintainers for everything sane and working that still can be...

Oh, come on. I'd like to see somebody from the FLOSS community who would look me straight in the eye and say they didn't see it coming. Canonical's been this way for years now. And everyone with an...

Namely smartphones and tablets. Wide range, my ***.

Truth is, Canonical increasingly desperate about starting to make money one way or another. Ubuntu One > Ubuntu Store > Unity > Mir. They're...