Ubuntu getting overbranded?

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 25 September 2006 22:32, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> Ubuntu is getting really great, but it's also getting really overbranded,
> every package are named package-1.0-123ubuntu123, which is in other
> distribution have only -i386 suffix.
>
> Launchpad translation only direct to specific distribution versus generic
> translations for use with debian, redhat, or any other distributions. Same
> with getting help online.
>
> And now, things are getting really complicated with super dependencies with
> apt, with ubuntu-meta.
>
> With these things, I'm wondering, is this really open source...
I don't understand how this could possibly make it not open source.

Also, normally, this particular fashion of writing version numbers is used 
when it has been modified slightly specifically for this distribution 
(somebody please correct me if I'm wrong)

Sasha