GNOME 3 released; Ubuntu GNOME remix announced

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 7 17:22:36 UTC 2011


Michael Haney [2011-04-07 13:10 -0400]:
> Mark Shuttleworth is letting his ego do the driving.  His comments of
> "this is not a democracy" flies in the face of what an open source
> project is supposed to be.  Ubuntu's development should be based on
> what the community wants, not what one person wants.

This is not how FOSS works, though. Traditionally communities are
meritocratic. free software developers don't usually (only) do what
other people ask them to, but what they want to do themselves. :)

Martin

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