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Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical
A week after the announcement that open source advocate and blogger Matt Asay is leaving Alfresco for Canonical, in the role of COO, Matt has agreed to answer your questions about his role at Canonical, his vision for the future of Ubuntu, or the prospects for open source as we begin to emerge from recession. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply. (Disclaimer: Matt is on the board of advisors for Slashdot's parent company, Geeknet.)
As COO, what are you going to do to improve the products you highlighted above? I'm not looking for a soft answer like "I'm going to promote Ubuntu on netbooks" but more so an itemized list of measurable goals, with milestones, dates and areas of focus (for instance, power minded ARM distributions). Is there anything about their vision you intend to change or influence the most?
Or, to put that first part in non-douche: "Do you have any specific, tangible ideas about how to improve the products highlighted above?"
You raise a good question, but dude, come on. The way you worded it made it sound like a condescending PHB preparing for a departmental meeting.
what will you do to ensure proprietary software, proprietary licenses and related legal uncertainties/risks will not be further migrated into ubuntu? What will you do to further the goal of free software/open source? It's not safe to program anything using mono due to the obvious legal risks, for example.
The yahoo search deal (after yahoo announcing a MS partnership) and having mono (and fspot) in ubuntu are two notable issues in that sense.