Is Canonical getting "Neroed"?

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Tue, March 23, 2010 10:22, Chris Rees wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
> FreeBSD?

Oligarchic meritocracy.