Stop it already!

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III
> <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
>>
>> Why is it that people who post about the recent issue with Canonical (see
>> http://tinyurl.com/ThouShaltNotBeCritical please) are suddenly being placed
>> in moderated status? Hypocrisy much? What your corporate masters do and
>> don't do is in fact a valid technical issue for discussion. The way in which
>> we can or cannot use the software dictates behavior. Lastly, you should
>> listen to your user base.
>
> 1) Is this a technical issue? Couldn't you blog/tweet about this? Or

To me it is. Where else I post about it isn't really germane to this
list, is it? Either the distro is free or it isn't. Either the people
making it are respectful good actors in the community, or they're
people who try to trademark common words in any language, which is the
very definition of BAD ACTOR.

> discuss it on the non-technical list that was created after the
> lists.ubuntu.com non-technical one was shut down?

Yes, I'm sure you'd like to keep marginalizing those of us who were
subscribed to that list. No. Reap what you sow, folks.

> 2) If you're being moderated, your message has been let through.

Way to read for content and pay attention to detail. Want to try again?

> 3) debian-multimedia was forced to change to deb-multimedia by Debian
> (and Debian wasn't THAT happy about the new domain name because of the
> "deb") so it's unsurprising that Ubuntu/Canonical would react to
> fixubuntu's use of the Ubuntu logo and the fixubuntu name. The guy
> could've just put the same info on his own micahflee website but he
> has an anti-Ubuntu/Canonical agenda (and no understanding of the
> concept of live and let live). Ubuntu/Canonical have every right to
> defend themselves and their logo and name.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

That has less than nothing to do with this. I don't care what Debian does.

> 4) The fixubuntu info's good (in 13.10, "gsettings set
> com.canonical.Unity.Lenses remote-content-search none" can be changed
> via the "security and privacy" applet) but "fix Ubuntu" is a misnomer
> and a misuse of "Ubuntu".

Who the hell gave them the authority to declare what is or isn't
misuse over an African word in an African language?

THAT is exactly the kind of thing that makes people call Canonical the
Apple of Linux.