Dead List Walking

[Mike Basinger]

I respect your opinion and wish you well.

Mike

On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:55 PM, David Sanders wrote:

>> We were very surprised that no one showed up at the meeting to defend Sounder or give any possible alternatives. As this being emotionally driven by popey, it was not. Sounder has been an issue on the CC radar for some time, popey just saw that thing were not improving.
> 
> Whatever the reasoning, it's disappointing for those Ubuntu users who
> found this list useful for general chit-chat.
> 
> For the last few years I've been a near-evangelist for how great
> Ubuntu is, not just as an OS, but as an example of free and
> non-corporate development. Mark Shuttleworth has always seemed to
> take a real interest in running the show and being approachable. This
> is what originally gave me the impression that Ubuntu was a "friendly"
> project which could contain real people. If we're to see a corporate
> lock-down on communications a la Apple or Microsoft (or Oracle, or
> Cisco etc ad infinitum) then I really forces to me to re-evaluate what
> the project stands for.
> 
> If it was originally intended to put better software than Windows in
> the hands of the masses then it's currently failing, as Unity is
> frankly far worse than the windowing system in Windows 7 (and yes I
> have been using it - it's basically a worse version of Gnome 2.x +
> Global Menu + AWN, thanks for ignoring these other excellent
> projects), and it is literally light-years behind OS X, despite
> stealing the ideas. The Windows 7 quicklaunch dock-ripoff is a much
> better implementation than the default left-bar in Unity in terms of
> dragging, dropping and clicking. as is AWN.
> 
> If Ubuntu was also intended as a way of breaking a dull, corporate
> hegemony in software then the project should also be careful that this
> isn't what it turns itself into.
> 
> So the software has now become rather poor and the structure seems to
> be getting worse by the day, and I seriously think it's time to
> change. With that in mind, I'm off to use Debian unstable, like I used
> to. My commercial work is Ubuntu-based (and indeed gets quite a few
> Ubu-based boxen out into the wild) so it'll be a bit of a switch, but
> if you're not listening to users then you're on a path to nowhere.
> 
> It's been a ride Ubuntu.
> 
> David
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