Ubuntu is under attack

[Jim Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 01:04 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> This discussion is more appropriate on sounder (hint).
> 
> On 12/17/05, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:29, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > > I don't think yelling and conspiracy theories are going to help much, do
> > > you?
> >
> > There are people who believe that limiting user choices to that
> > dictated by their personal religion is THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
> > (Capitals in their thoughts.)  They have applied their doctrine
> > to Gnome and Fedora, and have now started on Ubuntu.
> >
> > I don't claim that their purpose is to harm Ubuntu.
> >
> > I do claim that their approach is fundamentally flawed and
> > incompatible with software freedom and will harm Ubuntu if
> > not stopped.
> >
> > --Mike Bird
> 
> I would suggest you stop and take a look at the following (crude)
> break down on page views for the past three months at DistroWatch
> <http://www.distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=13>:
> Rank	Distribution	Hits Per Day
> 1	Ubuntu	2739
> 2	SUSE	1891
> 3	Mandriva	1801
> 4	Fedora	1030
> 
> Hmm. Who's sitting right at the top?
> 
> As for the "fundamentally flawed approach"... hmm, the numbers speak
> for themselves.

If the numbers speak for themselves, we'd all be running Windows XP.

> Plus, Ubuntu is still _fully_ customisable, however, it is also
> becoming more ACCESSIBLE (one of Canonical's stated goals is
> accessibility) by becoming more usable.

Accessible is fine, it's good. Removing functionality to get there, is a
path that needs to be carefully considered. 

(good sigmonster)


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Smith & Wesson, the *original* point and click interface.
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