Not Happy with ShipIt

[Al Gordon]

On 7/19/05, ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> Of course people expect promises to be fulfilled, even when they are
> promised something for free. And it's not like Al said that Ubuntu is a
> failure, nor that ShipIt program is a failure. He's just worried about
> making a succesfull installfest and being able to give out the CDs
> people are waiting from him.
> 
> On the other hand it's nice to see people defending Ubuntu so
> uncondinationally and often with anything they can get their hands on
> ;-) , but I don't think it benefits Ubuntu to try to reject constructive
> and well-founded criticism. Well-founded critisism is rather one of the
> things that's needed to get things better. Canonical and the developers
> are doing 97% excellent job and I'm sure they are just happy when
> someone helps them track down that remaining 3% :-)

I agree, even though I was on the receiving end of it, that it's nice
to see people jump in to defend Ubuntu and Canonical.  I expected no
less when I first posted.  Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distro, with
an incredible community behind it.

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  -- AL --