Shuttleworth Responds to Ubuntu's Critics
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Sep 2010 22:42 UTC
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu If there's one consistent piece of criticism that gets lobbed in Canonical's and Mark Shuttleworth's direction, it's that they do not contribute enough code - or anything else for that matter - to the Free software world. Mark Shuttleworth has apparently had enough, and has written a very, very lengthy blog post detailing how he feels about this criticism.
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n.l.o
Member since:
2009-09-14

"You seriously believe that Ubuntu users are not part of "the linux community"?


Didn't you get the memo? Only people who contribute code are members of the community.

Users, documentation writers, translators, icon/etc. artists, bug reporters, usability researchers, marketing departments, and so on, are all leeches. "

Silly me, I must tell the artists, testers, technical authors, researchers, analysts and the marketing department at work that they contribute nothing of value to our company products and eco-system.

Though I think i'll follow this nutter's example and say it via electronic means as I value my knee-caps!

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apoclypse Member since:
2007-02-17

I think he was being sarcastic.

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n.l.o Member since:
2009-09-14

Of course he was and so was I.

I'm British, I find it a major struggle not to be sarcastic. ;)

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felipec Member since:
2007-09-25

Silly me, I must tell the artists, testers, technical authors, researchers, analysts and the marketing department at work that they contribute nothing of value to our company products and eco-system.

Sigh they contribute to Ubuntu, not to linux.

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