Default Theme v. Community

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:25:16 -0500
> "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn at forestfield.org> wrote:
> > Then what you want isn't software freedom.  What you want is a
> > dictatorship where you and the other complainers who agree with you
> > set the terms for what's acceptable and somehow compel someone else to
> > implement your will at no charge to you.
> 
> And that's *so* much worse than a dictatorship where a few developers on
> a personal crusade ignore the wishes of 95% of their user base.
> 
> You're absolutely right; it's Canonical's project, Canonical's time,
> Canonical's money.  They can do whatever they want with it.  But
> presumably, they want people to use it.  And if that's the case, they
> better get a clue real frickin' quick.  As far as I'm concerned, unless
> this change is rolled back before final, the project is dead; I cannot
> and will not recommend it to anyone.  And that's a shame, because I was
> very much looking forward to doing so.

Note that the first view wasn't from either Canonical or Ubuntu.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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