Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 20:05, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> The subject line here is misleading, "pulls the plug" isn't entirely
> right, it won't get the same resources but it can still continue with
> the same resouces canonical gives to other community flavours.
>

Hi Jonathan! The issue is _quite_ that now Kubuntu will have the same
resources as other community flavours. The nice thing about Kubuntu is
_you_. Most contributors work on the bugs that affect them or scratch
their own itch. Lots of bugs are no fun to work on and everybody would
rather that "somebody else" fix them. That "somebody else" was often
you from what I understand. Therefore, the "not sexy" bugs will not be
fixed, and Kubuntu risks becoming a "might work if you have common
hardware and short expectations" distro.


> It's rational business sense not to spend money on something that
> isn't making money.
>

I agree with this 100%. Had someone mentioned one month ago "we need N
units of X currency per Z unit of time to continue with Kubuntu" I
would have paid for reasonable values of N, X, and Z. I alone cannot
employ you, but I would gladly subscribe to a "fund Kubuntu" cause.

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Dotan Cohen

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