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Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth

Posted by Soulskill on from the frantic-flamingo dept.

sfcrazy writes "While the larger Ubuntu community was busy downloading, installing and enjoying the latest edition of Ubuntu yesterday, a post by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth ruffled some feathers. He gave the impression that from now on only select members of the community will be involved in some development and it will be announced publicly only after completion. There was some criticism of this move, and Shuttleworth responded that they are actually opening up projects being developed internally by Canonical employees instead of closing currently open projects. He also made a new blog post clarifying his previous comments: 'What I offered to do, yesterday, spontaneously, is to invite members of the community in to the things we are working on as personal projects, before we are ready to share them. This would mean that there was even less of Ubuntu that was NOT shaped and polished by folk other than Canonical – a move that one would think would be well received. This would make Canonical even more transparent.'"

3 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Mini-mod me by noobermin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before you mention a) your technical problem with 12.10 b) your disgust with unity c) your leet alternative of cinammon/openbox/awesome/i3/dwm/twm/tmux/screen/tty2, can we save those for the appropriate forums or articles? This article is about Ubuntu becoming more closed, not about unity specifically or otherwise.

    1. Re:Mini-mod me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, and no.

      Like it or not, the 'off-topic' flood shows what really bugs people about the topics Ubuntu and Shuttleworth.

      Holding too close to 'the topic' can make the forum too much into an audience for press releases.

  2. Re:I wish he would make it less buggy by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sadly, ATI decided to stop support in its closed-source driver for the FirePro M7740 chip, which Dell sold me in a "workstation-class" laptop less than three years ago.

    As someone who's been in the same boat, I don't think it's fair to blame the manufacturer here. Your hardware didn't change -- your software did.

    Blame whoever broke binary compatibility with the existing driver.

    --
    There's no -1 for "I don't get it."