Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party'

slack_justyb writes "In a blog post, Mark Shuttleworth sends his congrats to the Ubuntu developers for the recent release of 13.10 and talks about 14.04's codename (Trusty Tahr). He also takes aim at what he calls 'The Open Source Tea Party.' He writes, 'Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors attack a project on purely political grounds, you have to wonder what their agenda is. At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party ;)' He cites all the complaints about Mir and even calls out Lennart Poettering's systemd, who is the past has pointed out Canonical's tendency to favor projects they control. Shuttleworth continues, 'And to put all the hue and cry into context: Mir is relevant for approximately 1% of all developers, just those who think about shell development. Every app developer will consume Mir through their toolkit. By contrast, those same outraged individuals have NIH’d just about every important piece of the stack they can get their hands on most notably SystemD, which is hugely invasive and hardly justified. What closely to see how competitors to Canonical torture the English language in their efforts to justify how those toolkits should support Windows but not Mir. But we'll get it done, and it will be amazing.' However, not all has earned Mark's scorn. He even goes so far to show some love for Linux Mint: 'So yes, I am very proud to be, as the Register puts it, the Ubuntu Daddy. My affection for this community in its broadest sense – from Mint to our cloud developer audience, and all the teams at Canonical and in each of our derivatives, is very tangible today.'"

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Re: Of course...

[mcgrew]

Wow, who's got mod points today? An on-topic post gets modded offtopic and your offtopic (and completely inaccurate) comment gets modded up! Is someone trying to kill slashdot??

You accuse the GP of trolling, you're the one who's wrong. The tea party is indeed the faction that shut the government down, and what's more they say they're willing to do it again.

Now if you folks will excuse me I need to go metamoderate. There are a lot of folks with points that should never get any.

And editors, I could use some, it's been a while.

PS- both the parent and I are offtopic and should be modded as such.