Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/12/2010 07:05, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 03:12:32PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:06:18AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/unity_ubuntu_the_future/
>>>>
>>>> Killing off X11?? :) Ric
>>> That's one of the reasons I'll be taking a long look at Debian Squeeze
>>> when it's released as stable. I just don't like control freaks.
>> Control freaks? Is it more control-freakish to dictate your use of
>> Wayland than it was to dictate your use of X?
>> X has a big bunch of problems, and it is a big old codebase. I don't
>> know the ins and outs of the decision, but I really don't like this
>> assumption that it must be a bad thing.
> I wasn't referring to any specific change. What I don't like is
> Shuttleworth's autocratic attitude. Even though he's not the CEO any
> more, I wouldn't bet that he doesn't *heavily* influences decisions.
> I remember his famous/infamous statement "this is not a democracy". He
> reminds me too much of Steve Jobs.

A rather interesting comment.

In one of the openSUSE mail lists it is suggested that one of the 
problems Novell's openSUSE has is that it has no leadership and no one 
providing direction - which is now being done by the "community".

There is a Russian expression which covers the above, but I do not know 
it's English equivalent so the best I can do is to translate it 
literally, "Some into the forest....some to get firewood.....".

BC

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