Lies and FUD about Ubuntu by Mandriva boss?

[Christian Jensen]

That's what this blogger means:

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/incinerator/weblog/comment_mandriva_ceo_disses_ubuntu


"François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva, recently did an interview 
<http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/interview-francois0602> for the 
Mandriva Club. During that interview, he did some serious Ubuntu 
bashing. Some of his arguments amounted to straight lies and FUD.

Here some examples:

"One possible worse case scenario is that Ubuntu's plan is to use money 
to put all other community-based distros out of business and then start 
monetizing the installed base."

1.) Ubuntu pledges on it's website that it will never do what 
Mandrake/Mandriva has done, offering a so-called "Premium" version for 
money. They might break this promise but how likely is that, really? 
Therefore, this is a dodgy argument, others would simply call it FUD. 
Aha, A CEO of a so-called Open Source company taking refuge to FUD then, 
isn't he? Well, we all know who the usual culprits are, what does that 
tell us about Mandriva and Francois?"


I think our blogger is a bit harsh, but must admit that he has a point.


Best Regards
Christian
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