CONCLUSION: What's this landscape stuff about?

[Siggy Brentrup]

Hi List,

sorry for this long rant, feel free to skip it if inclined to.

Before going to bed last night I was wondering how the community
had changed during my 5 years of absence from OSS.  In those days
my posting would have started a flame war mostly supporting my
POV.  As you all can see, the early public responses were all saying
"What do you care about a simple URL".

Another story are private hate mails I received - you know who you
are, either speak up publicly or SHUT UP! All those earned a honorable
TROLL classification in my scores file.  Taking into account that I
set Reply-To on my initial posting, the top contender with a greek
sounding name even must have tricked his mailer to respond to my
subscription address or use a broken MUA (I suspect the latter since
he posted from gmail without User-Agent or X-Mailer header).  This
person even suggested I should switch to Windows if I don't want to
see ads from Canonical "provider of a free OS".  He managed in a
single mail what another person on this list needed over 20 attempts
for, effecting to his postings on any list I'm subscribed to will be
flagged for deletion upon arrival.  The CoC forbids me to explicitely
name this I***T group here.

Even after rising when opening my INBOX I found another hate mail,
essentially the same story: someone wanting to tell me what OSS is
about.

Just to make things clear: I praise Canonical for providing the
necessary infrastructure for Ubuntu which is a value added Debian.  As
a long time OSS developer I am aware of the fact that they must sell
products to be able to continue Ubuntu support.  I used to provide
payed support to selected customers to make a living from and I'm
going to do so in the future.  The only thing I'm complaining about
is the way they advertise their products when installing an innocent
looking package.

Only after opening the ubuntu-users folder if found supporting
opinions giving me hope that not too much has changed.  

Personally I'd prefer the old style of heated public flame wars
followed by drinking a beer or two with your opponents when meeting at
some conference but I understand that the CoC is nessesary not to
initimidate new users.

Thanks for listening
  Siggy  (https://launchpad.net/~bsb)
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