Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Sun Dec 26 07:52:43 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 05:41:53PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 26/12/2010 07:05, Robert Holtzman wrote:

          .........snip.........

> > 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".

Leadership is one thing. Autocracy is another.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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