Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday 08 May 2011 08:59:58 pm Liam Proven wrote:
> > a) let the people know they don't like it
>
> Why? Why should they care? You're not a paying customer. You're a
> freeloader. We all are.

That's where commercial software is superior to "free" software. This being 
said, there are FOSS developpers that do care about those who use their work.

But if really Mr. Shuttleworth does not care about the people using his 
system, no problem, I'll have used one version of it then changed again.


> Some people wanted to keep KDE3 alive 'cos they didn't like KDE4. It
> failed, pretty much. 

It's a little early to say that. I'm using it just now and I don't feel it 
failed at all. As to it's future it's more diffcult to say.

> Why move? What is so difficult about adjusting?

I don't see what there is to "adjust". I don't want to work the "Unity way" 
and I don't want to work the "Gnome 3 way", just as I don't want to work the 
Windows way. Why don't you buy Windows and ajust, it's just like Ubuntu: it's 
master will tell you "where you should want to go today". Ok, this master 
will ask you to pay for this information, if money is your problem.


> Kill it how? By no longer supporting a superseded piece of code? Well
> what else should they do?

Continue to support fine working code until their alpha-stage product is ready 
to use. May I say that IBM supported OS/2 until 2006 and Microsoft supported 
XP until Windows seven?

> Why would a modern distro cling to outdated legacy code?
>
> Seriously, I'm curious, why?

If it's better than shiny new buggy stuff, it would make sense. As another 
example, Serenity System still _sells_ "outdated legacy code".

Thierry