[ Ubuntu-BD ] Hate Ubuntu? It's normal!

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Much things to ponder about....

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Raihan Hasnain <raihanhasnain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you believe online forums and blogs, Ubuntu must be the most hated
> Linux distribution on earth. Not only is it funded by a millionaire
> space tourist and aggressive capitalist, it also exists (according to
> another Linux company's CEO) for the sole purpose of destroying all
> other distributions that exist on the market. It is reportedly a
> parasite that takes all the code from Debian without contributing much
> back and despite all its "software for humanity" talk, it keeps
> developing proprietary software solutions (e.g. Launchpad). Mark
> Shuttleworth's recent suggestion to synchronise distribution releases
> in order to coordinate bug-fixing work was greeted with a suspicion
> that he merely wants "to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and
> Red Hat are already doing in the enterprise space." So what makes
> people dislike and mistrust Ubuntu so much?
>
> I don't think it's specifically Ubuntu that many people have a problem
> with. Throughout the history of our coverage of distributions here at
> DistroWatch, it was always the top one that some readers appeared to
> dislike most. If you've been around in the early parts of this decade,
> you might remember that Mandrake Linux went through similar pains - it
> kept getting a high number of reviews, but it also attracted more than
> its fair share of negativity on user forums. Interestingly, now that
> it acts from the position of an underdog, it has suddenly become the
> darling of the distro world, with excellent products and barely any
> criticism - but also hardly any reviews. It is the same as when a
> group of unbiased spectators watches a sporting contest between a
> clear favourite and an unfancied underdog - they will undoubtedly
> support the latter with all their might! It's the human nature.
>
> The fact that many people dislike the top distribution is not really a
> problem. The problem is that many of these folks are extremely vocal
> on the Internet to express their opinions. While no intelligent reader
> will ever take them seriously, they do give the Linux community a bad
> name and discourage potential Linux users from joining us. Can
> anything be done about this? Not much, it seems. Until people start
> reading their own posts and realise that senseless negativity towards
> the most popular distribution is counter-productive, we will have to
> live with the unfortunate fact that the top dog will always be the
> most hated one too - at least in the more immature and destructive
> circles on the Internet.
>
>
> Source: Distrowatch
>
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