Shuttleworth Answers Ubuntu Linux's Critics

climenole writes "Technomancer wrote: 'Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu Linux's founder, maintains that he and Ubuntu are doing right by the Linux community and the even larger open-source community. In recent weeks, Ubuntu has been criticized for not giving Linux enough support. Specifically, the complains have been that Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, doesn't do enough for producing Linux source code.'"

Mark should answer the following question:

[bogaboga]

Is it his opinion that the [default] desktop environment that Ubuntu provides is better for the Linux desktop ecosystem than all other environments at the moment?

Having tried the few options available, I hereby submit that there is an environment that in my opinion, is better for desktop Linux in functionality and license as compared to the default. I leave names out on purpose.

Re:Proper link

[Anonymous Coward]

Good point. We should judge them on their use of brown. I think they're first place, ahead of the microsoft zune.

Oh the Irony (was Re:Idiot)

[Zero__Kelvin]

"you, sir, are and"

So he's the guy who has been comparing my bits and telling me if they match all these years!

Re:I'm a Redhat/CentOS/Fedora user

[dangitman]

Are they intentionally copying famous comic books where the first letter of the first and last names have to be the same? (You know, like Peter Parker, Bruce Banner and all that?)

Yeah, because as we all know, comic books invented alliteration. It was a completely original idea of the comic book writers, and certainly not something that is so commonplace there's a word for it in the dictionary.

Re:A solid distro

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, I know I could be faster if I ran Gentoo

In your imagination mostly. The Gentoo tards who proclaim all those speed benefits pretty much universally use a long string of CFLAGS that are mostly redundant and in many cases can cause slowdowns and the software to work improperly. You're getting about as much extra speed in running Gentoo as you get a HP boost by putting a fart pipe muffler and some Type R stickers on your ricer.

Re:Proper link

[index0]

By that logic, you admit sales people are just as important as the engineers?

Re: Your sig

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Grammar Nazi Karma strikes again...

It only took a quick scan of your post to see that you fucked up your punctuation and misused the word "using."
There's probably more there if I cared enough to read more closely.
I recommend a new day job.

Re: Your sig

[daveime]

Says the person who used "There Fixed That For Ya!" in the same post. Surely, you meant "There, fixed that for you" ?

By criticizing ONE mistake in someone's spelling, you managed to commit THREE mistakes yourself. Namely, you omit a comma, capitalize all the words for no reason, AND misspell 'you' as 'ya'.

Keep up the good work, Mr Pot, and soon you'll be as black as Mr Kettle.

Re: Your sig

[Nethead]

We are computer geeks, we are not English majors. You are on the wrong site.

Now, Mr. six-digit ID, get the fuck off of my lawn.

Re: Your sig

[Vintermann]

Surely, you meant "There, fixed that for you" ?

What fixed that for you? I think you're missing an "I".

Re: Your sig

[daveime]

When you are speaking about yourself in the first person, there is usually little need for the "I am", "I will", "I should" etc. It is implicit that you are talking about yourself.

Example.

Q. "Where are you going ?"
A. "To the mall"

There is absolutely no need to use the expanded "I am going to the mall". Unless you are six. How old are you by the way ?