[Bug 207422] Re: /sysfs problems with SDIO/MMC and sd8686 Wlan driver

[diJenerate]

Jeremy,

To be honest, I have given up on Ubuntu and moved back to core Debian  
because of the direction things seemed to be going in long ago, and have 
actually gone with the Ubuntu development. In my 15 years of linux 
experience, I have never seen any single distro follow Microsoft down 
the slippery slope of poor prioritisation as closely as Ubuntu has. 
Focus has gone full cycle to be about the UI so much more than core 
functions that simple things that worked before go broken like Audio 
(with the introduction and poor integration of pulse) among other issues 
too numerous to count. Regression is the order of the day with Ubuntu so 
much so I have abandoned any bug reporting in it and even use of it at 
this stage.

I focus my development efforts on Debian and Maemo (and shortly 
depending on how things pan out, Meego) as far as linux goes and for the 
upper end stuff OpenSolaris. Some of the problems of Ubuntu seem to be 
leaking into the global distribution world and we now see mass 
regressions in Gnome under other distros. If this continues, I fear the 
anti-OpenSource advocates (MS, Apple et al) would have won in this OS 
war since the only thing worse than obscurity where an OS is concerned 
is negative mass exposure. I fear linux is on a path to notoriety where 
the desktop and non-tech users are concerned and if this continues 
unchecked, the developers who have been around from the beginning and 
the experienced ones like myself with a bit less experience than the 
older guys will abandon desktop and handheld development out of frustration.

I have the Sharp Zaurus project of 2001-2002 under my belt of experience 
but today's linux world is full of programmers who don't seem to really 
grasp what the OpenSource movement is really about. These 'nu-devs' have 
too much say in the direction the community is going in and not enough 
understanding of where GNU and then Linux came from. Without knowing 
where you came from, or who you are, you have no way of knowing where 
you're going.

Regrets,
Paul


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/sysfs problems with SDIO/MMC and sd8686 Wlan driver
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