Ubuntu loosing its popularity

[Art Edwards]

On 11/30/2011 10:03 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 30 November 2011 16:45, Art Edwards
> <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> To me Unity
>> is Ubuntu's Edsel and Gnome 3 is gnome's Edsel. Worse, they have dropped
>> their Thunderbird for their Edsel.
> Could you clarify the Thunderbird comment please?  Thunderbird has not
> been dropped has it?
>
> Colin
>
No. The thunderbird was a Ford product. In its initial incarnation, it
was quite nice (for an American sports car). I'm merely saying that the
Edsel didn't replace a great product, it was brought out, and dropped,
independently.