Is Canonical getting "Neroed"?

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 23 09:22:11 GMT 2010


On 23 March 2010 08:40, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Mon, March 22, 2010 21:58, Michael Haney wrote:
>> The snarky "this is not a democracy" comment by Mark Shuttleworth, which
>> is really hypocritical coming from a man who dislikes such corporate
>> dictatorship, should be setting off alarms in every person who uses
>> Ubuntu and Linux in general.
>
> Anyone who says that any Linux project is a democracy, doesn't know shit
> about Linux, or Free Software in general. Pardon my French. It has always
> been a benevolent dictatorship or at best a meritocracy. Another word for
> democracy in software development is anarchy.
>
> Linux -> Linus
> GNU -> Richard
> Perl -> Larry
> Python -> Guido
> Ubuntu -> Mark
> Drupal -> Dries
>
> Now name me one relevant and significant Free Software project where there
> isn't some kind of "benevolent dicatorship for life". Always willing to
> learn something new.
>
>

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