[OT] why isn't bikeshed good enough as a sounder replacement?

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:47:18 +0200
"Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:

> My point exactly. So what are lots of people whining about? Sounder
> got shut down, bikeshed popped up in its place, problem solved,
> everybody happy.

Everybody /NOT/ happy.  Ubuntu, the distro for 'Humanity', the savior
of the little people, the disenfranchised, the third world, has thrown
away some of its longest-time 'members' because they wanted to speak
openly without censorship on a list that has long been described as
allowing, even encouraging, that very thing.  

They (and I) feel betrayed, lied-to and left out in the cold.  

...left out by Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Pope, Daniel Holbach, Matthew
East, Mike Basinger, Benjamin Mako Hill, Emmet Hikory and Elizabeth
Krumbach.

I originally came to Ubuntu because of the avowed dedication
to humanity.

Where, I ask you, is the humanity, the Ubuntu-ness, in that?
How, indeed, does this act serve Ubuntu as a whole?  ...or people?
Wherein lies that happiness of which you spoke?

Here's a little something about which to think:
If we are all members of the Ubuntu 'community then when do we vote for
the CC?  

From:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
Members are appointed by Mark Shuttleworth and approved by a vote by
the entire Ubuntu membership.

I think we've been led to believe that the,"entire Ubuntu membership,"
includes each and every one of us.  Where's my ballot?  Where /have
been/ my ballots in the past?  How about voting notification?

Again, community/Community.

Cybe R. Wizard -Ubuntu 'member' since early Warty
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