My request to ubuntu developer team

[Alan McKay]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
> unity, which is about what I expected.  There's always fierce opposition
> to change and those are the people we hear from.

I'm fine with change as long as it is change for the better.   Change
for the sake of change on the other hand is foolish, and that seems to
me to be what is driving this move.  And it looks to me like everyone
is rushing to try to copy Apple.  Well, I have the pleasure of using a
Mac now for the first time in 15 years - at my new job.  It ain't all
it is cracked up to be, to be honest.  It has its good points, but it
has a lot of bad ones too.   The biggest problem is that Apple gives
you "the apple way" and you take their way or the highway.
Traditionally one of the strong points of Open Source software has
been that it is highly configurable so you can have it any way you
want, as long as you can do the config.  Well, that long tradition of
Open Source seems to be on its death bed right now because now even
here, the developers are saying "our way, or the highway"

I'm not just mourning change.  I'm mourning the death of an entire philosophy.



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