Is this what Canonical calls support?

[Thilo Six]

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Navid Paya schrieb am 09.04.2006 23:10:

> Well, I don't see why this should be called nonsense. The guys in
> kubuntu.de <http://kubuntu.de> are the main momentum behind this newly
> born so I should gather the fact that they have posponed their
> activities has some kind of message. Doesn't it Jonathan?

Calm down.

Here is a copy of a post from Jonathan before:
(this will maks it clear. All is sorted out.)

> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:16:38PM +0200, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
> 
>>>> > Please clarify, is this kubuntu.de or the entire kubuntu project?
>>
>>> 
>>> From the announcements it's pretty clear that this is about kubuntu.de and the 
>>> developer manpower of amu, I think.
> 
> 
> The issue is that when kubuntu.org happened to move to a new machine
> amu's request for an account on the machine didn't get handled.  Amu
> makes the occational Live CDs that accompany KDE releases so it's
> obviouisly useful for him to have an account.  Canonical's sysadmin is
> a busy person however and he missed the request.  Amu's account has
> now been added so problem solved.
> 
> 
>>> I'd also like to hear more about the specifics, but looking at the 
>>> announcement I think it's pretty serious news that requests by people who 
>>> spend their free time (without any payments) on making Kubuntu a better 
>>> distribution get completely ignored by Canonical and Shuttleworth - the same 
>>> Shuttleworth that some weeks ago announced he's using Kubuntu himself now and 
>>> will make it "a first class citizen".
> 
> 
> This has nothing to do with Mark Shuttleworth and not much to do with
> Canonical, it's just the sysadmin missing a request.
> 
> 
>>> I think Kubuntu is actually great the way it is, but it could be a lot better 
>>> if there was some more commercial backup.
> 
> 
> Canonical has been wonderfully supportive of Kubuntu.  As far as I
> know they havn't sold any commercial support contracts for it though
> so from a commercial point of view it makes little sense to put more
> money into it until that starts to happen.
> 
> The note on kubuntu.de does make the problem appear far larger than it
> was, it did get the issue solved though so time to move along.
> 
> Jonathan
> 


bye Thilo

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