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

[Darcy Casselman]

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."

I'm not sure what the exact quote is from (probably the UDS keynote,
judging by the "200 million users"), but I'd say that's probably a
mischaracterization of what he actually said.

Mark's full keynote is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjyNTCHVyxs

The "Our mission is 200 million users of free software" comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjyNTCHVyxs?l=6:28

"That does not mean that we're going to abandon, in any way, shape or
form, a developer community. I'm a developer. You're all developers.
And I think you appreciate stability, robustness and design.
Developers need all the same things that consumers need and more.  But
by focusing on consumers; by focusing on our mission and making sure
when there is conflict, tension, uncertainty, we ask ourselves, 'What
is our mission?' and 'How do we respond to our mission in this case?'
I think we will make progress."

Darcy.