Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[chris]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 18:33 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> > On 4/27/2011 5:11 PM, Tom H wrote:
> >>
> >> With Sounder shut down and 11.04 *AND* Unity around the corner, this
> >> list's become the everything-Ubuntu list...
> >
> > Yeah but do you want them to come down with the hammer like they did to
> > sounder? I mean everybody saw it coming for sounder and we can almost
> > see it coming for this list too even though they'll most likely just
> > enforce some sort of penalty volcano at first.
> 
> I've never been a member of sounder but, from what's been posted here
> about it's shutdown, it was closed because of criticism of Israel. If
> this was the real reason, I don't understand why the offending posters
> couldn't have been moderated rather than shut down the entire list. If
> the real reason was criticism of Unity (and Israel was the excuse),

Many of use believe that was the real reason.

> then Canonical's shooting itself in the foot because you have to be
> ready for harsh criticism and willing to accept it when you're
> proposing to change people's long-term DE habits. Look at how much
> whining there's been here and elsewhere about Network Manager; it's
> basically died out. And the same applies to grub2. Those were small
> aspects of the OS; Unity's a change of the whole enchilada so it's
> going to be an uphill struggle for Canonical to have it accepted - and
> to look beyond their inevitably wounded egos and fix the valid issues
> that users raise in the coming months. If sounder's not available,
> this list'll have to be the one (unfortunately because I'd rather have
> it limited to technical issues).
> 
As would we all.