The OOo, LibreOffice Tale Should Be a Warning To Canonical, Other FOSS Projects

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:47:20 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Michael over-states it a little bit. Mark is a benevolent
> self-appointed dictator for life, after all. He gets to set the
> direction for the distro because he's paying! It's only through his
> largesse that we have this excellent distro and it costs nothing at
> all.

Granted, and I've never thought differently.  That said, even the most
benevolent of dictators needs serfs to whom to dictate.  The present
course of Ubuntu will not leave many of those, trust me.  In fact, when
I go to Debian and LXDE, myself, (tomorrow) I will begin to evangelize
for that solution instead of /and against/ the "listen to users but
don't pay attention' that has become Ubuntu.  I really started to feel
this way when Ubu started being more and more failure-prone on the
low-end hardware on which it originally wanted to be available.  It
seems that the third-world isn't all that important after all.

I've had it; I'm gone.  Good luck to you who stay and to Ubuntu as a
whole.  You will likely both need it.  I currently see Ubu as EOL.

Cybe R. Wizard -no longer available to sounder /or/ ubuntu-users 
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