Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Liam Proven]

On 21 Apr 2011 21:17, "chris" <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 17:16 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 21 April 2011 17:04, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Liam Proven wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Well, Sounder /was/ the place - but since it's gone now, there is a
> > >> new, non-Ubuntu Sounder list. It's here:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:54 AM, John McCabe-Dansted
> > >> http://groups.google.com/group/bikeshed
> > >>
> > >> Do please come and join us there!
> > >>
> > >
> > > I've seen many references to Sounder but never went there. What
exactly was
> > > Sounder and why was it shutdown?
> >
> > Ubuntu Sounder was the place for non-support-related discussion about
> > Ubuntu and Linux in general.
> >
> > After a recent thread expressing dissatisfaction with the forthcoming
> > Unity desktop GUI, I suggested that Linux Mint might be a suitable
> > alternative for those who did not want Unity but liked Ubuntu and
> > classic Gnome.
> >
> <snip>
>
> It seemed to me that it was a quite constructive criticism of unity that
> triggered the decision to close sounder.
>
> I suspect the political discussion that followed that criticism may have
> been used as an excuse.
>
> Just a personal opinion.

Ah, well, you might be right there. It's an interesting thought.

Any discussion of Israel & related matters does rouse extremely strong
feelings. It's one of the prime causes of cases of Godwin's Law. I thought
it was that, but you might well be right...

- Liam P.
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