Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 19:41 UTC, submitted by Matt D.
"Perhaps it's just me, but I'm having a difficult time understanding Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu founder, when he figured that openly trying to recruit developers from other Linux projects was a good idea. Doing so in a mailing list in the manner that he did was, to be brutally honest, in very poor taste. As luck would have it, the response has not been too exciting thus far."
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RE: RANT Warning: What's the big deal?
by manmist on Tue 12th Dec 2006 04:45
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To Mark and all Linux developers and companies, people who take time to generate bug reports, and anyone else I forgot: Thank You for giving us a free alternative to proprietary software. "
Ubuntu itself is proprietary software. They have been installing proprietary and possibly illegal kernel modules in every release by default
RE[2]: RANT Warning: What's the big deal?
by MattPie on Tue 12th Dec 2006 17:31
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This is the grown up world - he's allowed to do what he did. It's his dime as well if he wants to offer people a job. I think it's kind of funny that people are using linux, software which Mark's company invests in, and they complain that he offers jobs to programmers. In the world I'm from, successful companies pursue employees when they feel it's important to their goals.
Mark's goals for Ubuntu are pretty noble, don't you think? I wish Mark were running Pharma companies so that everyone could benefit from affordable healthcare.
To Mark and all Linux developers and companies, people who take time to generate bug reports, and anyone else I forgot: Thank You for giving us a free alternative to proprietary software.
Anyway, sorry for the rant.