Unity and 11.04 (I know -- yawn -- another opinion)

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, George Standish
<george.standish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read that Mark S. suggested that advanced users should simply leave Ubuntu
> and find another distribution.  So that 200 million users goal Mark stated
> at UDS does not include so called "power users."

  This begs two questions:

a) Why bother having a server edition then?

  I ran Fedora on my desktop for years specifically because I was
administering RHEL/CentOS boxes for clients.   I now have clients that
are doing Debian and Ubuntu on the server, which made it practical for
me to use Ubuntu on the desktop.   If I'm not going to use Ubuntu on
the desktop, then I'm going to have to recommend against Ubuntu on my
customer's servers whenever I am asked my opinion on this.

b) Why try to compete against Android and iOS in what is emerging as
their home turf?   While my mother is running Ubuntu on her desktop,
and Fedora before that, this is because her son's are doing system
administration.  I fully expect her next computer will be a tablet
with docking station running some mobile operating system (short-term
bet is Android-based, but who knows), not a full desktop.

   Is it really good for Canonical's future to focus only on a market
that they are easily going to be pushed out of by other players,
rather than being that bridge between power users and the
average-users that they support?

> PS. the current copyright assignment issue with Canonical should cause some
> concern for anyone doing development work for Ubuntu

  That would be a longer off-topic conversation :-)  Not that I've
done any thinking on Copyright issues over last decade *grins*

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