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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.'"
shuttleworth labeled everyone that disagrees with him & cannonical a GNU-TeaParty, hey shuttleworth fuck you asshole i would punch you right in the nose if i ever get within arms reach of you
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
I'm SO happy that I pay for software. I don't have to deal with all of this open source drama bullshit, and have to worry about when somebody's temper tantrum decides to end or radically change some software that I rely on for my business. My eyes glazed over halfway through the story summary, and I really don't care.
I like your idea, but how do you manage to avoid Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle in your process?
Time Bomber the Book coming soon.
Well, you could always get a set of people together representing one side of the conversation and force something through by a partisan vote that mandates a fine if everyone doesn't participate with solution then provide exemptions for your friends and corporations.
I mean look how well that worked with the real tea party.
It's ignorant people like you that made Goebbels so very powerful.
1. Only 15% of the government was shutdown. Saying a "Complete Shutdown" is absolutely incorrect. ... you people are the fucking joke.
2. It was Obama and Reid that shut down the government. The Tea Party actually attempted many reasonable compromises. Originally they wanted Obamacare killed, then they just wanted the same year long extension that Obama gave to all his corporate and union buddies, and finally they just wanted the President, all aides, and Congress to be forced onto Obamacare with the rest of the country. Your boys in their ivory tower just held their breath and shook their heads at the idea that they would have to live under the same rules they are forcing everyone else on. There is no defense for this
Dear Mr Redmond $hill,
in this little piece of text I am going to pull your mental toenails and then give you the impression of being waterboarded:
I am a long-time Linux, FF, OpenOffice, gcc, LaTeX, vi user. I grew up on HP-UX at a time your crap would not run for longer than three hours. HPUX would simply run for years at a time.
I recently switched to OpenBSD and quickly familiarized with most of the stuff. I already run gcc and OpenOffice. Diversity is strength, even if your corrupt Washington buddies can compromise Linux (which is a juicy target at this time), We The People, can quickly move to an Alternative Unix. It's all very, very smooth.
Unix already OWNs large-scale computing, phones and tables. All your bullshitting will not stop your demise. Better close shop now and invest all the M$FT capital in something like lemon growing.