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Unfortunately not only does he seem to have missed the point of that original post, but he also writes as though I was making an accusation or statement rather than asking a question:</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was responding to queries from iTWire about a recent blog post that has claimed Canonical is becoming the new Microsoft.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>He goes on to list some of the points I made:</p> +<blockquote><p>The blog post had listed a number of reasons why the writer thought Ubuntu was allegedly becoming the new Microsoft: the inclusion of Mono as a default; the creation of Ubuntu One, a proprietary software repository; removing the GIMP and other applications from Ubuntu; changing the default search engine to Yahoo!; discussion about what proprietary applications should be included in the Ubuntu repositories; and the appointment of Matt Asay as chief operating officer.</p></blockquote> +<p>Please, let&#8217;s get this straight. I have noteworthy opinions on one or two of the points I mentioned, but that was not the point of the post. They were supposed to be taken as examples of a collection of decisions that are apparently, in various quarters, providing the fuel for an increase of criticism overall.</p> +<p>Personally I really am not bothered about the Gimp being removed (it is easy to install), nor OpenOffice.org from the UNR (I actually install the desktop edition on my netbook anyway), nor am I upset about Ubuntu One; it&#8217;s an interesting solution, I use it sometimes myself and I&#8217;m sure a Windows version will be most welcome by many around the globe. Neither <a href="http://popey.com/blog/2010/01/26/yahoobuntu/#comment-1893">am I bothered</a> about the Yahoo search thing (If Canonical can get money from Microsoft then that&#8217;s just funny IMHO), and I was actually pleased about <a href="https://twitter.com/opensourcerer/status/8680203428">Matt Asay&#8217;s appointment</a>; he will bring a wealth of commercial experience, a good dose of much needed sales &#038; marketing skills to the operation and I&#8217;m sure much more besides.</p> +<p>Sam also didn&#8217;t mention any of this from my original post:</p> +<blockquote><p>I really like Ubuntu. I use it everywhere, I help in the Ubuntu-uk irc channel when I can and we [our company] promote Ubuntu to our customers and I [as an individual] to friends and family.</p> +<p>What concerns me is not any particular item in the list above: some I care about, others I do not; as I am sure many of you will do too. It is the increasing volume of criticism and vitriol as a whole. It is getting louder. This, I believe, is indicative of a turning tide that, if we are not careful, will result in Ubuntu losing popularity and more of the FOSS community exercising itâs freedom.</p></blockquote> +<p>I did not claim Canonical was becoming the new Microsoft. I asked if it might be. I also (admittedly not very clearly on my first pass) was interested in the reasons why Canonical/Ubuntu is getting more criticism directed at it at a time when it is becoming more successful and more important and was hoping to solicit some ideas and opinion as to how we could stop that increasing criticism and prevent what seems to be a fairly common occurrence with big and successful companies; we are even seeing it with Google now. Ubuntu/Canonical is built on very different principles to traditional commercial enterprises, so could we, as the community, come up with any ideas to prevent the &#8220;love-to-hate&#8221; syndrome?</p> +<p>I don&#8217;t read iTWire much. 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http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2956&r2=1.2957 Delta lines: +30 -18 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-02-15 12:00:41+0000 1.2956 +++ index.html 2010-02-15 18:00:46+0000 1.2957 @@ -37,8 +37,37 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 15, 2010 12:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 15, 2010 06:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>February 15, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> +Alan Lord</a> : +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/";> +Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>On the 10th of February I <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/10/follow-up-post-to-canonical-microsoft/";>updated</a> my <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/09/is-canonical-becoming-the-new-microsoft/";>original</a> “Is Canonical becoming the new Microsoft?” post to make it clearer that what I was <em>actually asking</em> was about whether the company is becoming the next organisation that we <em><strong>love to hate</strong></em> because of the increasing level of criticism aimed at it and it’s flagship product <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com";>Ubuntu</a>. </p> +<p>Today, the 15th February, <a href="http://www.itwire.com/sam-varghese";>Sam Varghese</a> has written about a conversation <a href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/36820-im-not-driven-by-microsoft-hatred-shuttleworth";>iTWire have had</a> with Mark Shuttleworth regarding my original post. Unfortunately not only does he seem to have missed the point of that original post, but he also writes as though I was making an accusation or statement rather than asking a question:</p> +<blockquote><p>“He was responding to queries from iTWire about a recent blog post that has claimed Canonical is becoming the new Microsoft.”</p></blockquote> +<p>He goes on to list some of the points I made:</p> +<blockquote><p>The blog post had listed a number of reasons why the writer thought Ubuntu was allegedly becoming the new Microsoft: the inclusion of Mono as a default; the creation of Ubuntu One, a proprietary software repository; removing the GIMP and other applications from Ubuntu; changing the default search engine to Yahoo!; discussion about what proprietary applications should be included in the Ubuntu repositories; and the appointment of Matt Asay as chief operating officer.</p></blockquote> +<p>Please, let’s get this straight. I have noteworthy opinions on one or two of the points I mentioned, but that was not the point of the post. They were supposed to be taken as examples of a collection of decisions that are apparently, in various quarters, providing the fuel for an increase of criticism overall.</p> +<p>Personally I really am not bothered about the Gimp being removed (it is easy to install), nor OpenOffice.org from the UNR (I actually install the desktop edition on my netbook anyway), nor am I upset about Ubuntu One; it’s an interesting solution, I use it sometimes myself and I’m sure a Windows version will be most welcome by many around the globe. Neither <a href="http://popey.com/blog/2010/01/26/yahoobuntu/#comment-1893";>am I bothered</a> about the Yahoo search thing (If Canonical can get money from Microsoft then that’s just funny IMHO), and I was actually pleased about <a href="https://twitter.com/opensourcerer/status/8680203428";>Matt Asay’s appointment</a>; he will bring a wealth of commercial experience, a good dose of much needed sales & marketing skills to the operation and I’m sure much more besides.</p> +<p>Sam also didn’t mention any of this from my original post:</p> +<blockquote><p>I really like Ubuntu. I use it everywhere, I help in the Ubuntu-uk irc channel when I can and we [our company] promote Ubuntu to our customers and I [as an individual] to friends and family.</p> +<p>What concerns me is not any particular item in the list above: some I care about, others I do not; as I am sure many of you will do too. It is the increasing volume of criticism and vitriol as a whole. It is getting louder. This, I believe, is indicative of a turning tide that, if we are not careful, will result in Ubuntu losing popularity and more of the FOSS community exercising itâs freedom.</p></blockquote> +<p>I did not claim Canonical was becoming the new Microsoft. I asked if it might be. I also (admittedly not very clearly on my first pass) was interested in the reasons why Canonical/Ubuntu is getting more criticism directed at it at a time when it is becoming more successful and more important and was hoping to solicit some ideas and opinion as to how we could stop that increasing criticism and prevent what seems to be a fairly common occurrence with big and successful companies; we are even seeing it with Google now. Ubuntu/Canonical is built on very different principles to traditional commercial enterprises, so could we, as the community, come up with any ideas to prevent the “love-to-hate” syndrome?</p> +<p>I don’t read iTWire much. I only noticed this post from Sam as I had a couple of referred clicks to this blog today and was interested in where they were coming from. </p> +<p>Sam, your article paints me with a brush which I do not believe to be fair or accurate.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F"; title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F"; title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png"; 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title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -388,23 +417,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> -Italo Vignoli</a> : -<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/d1HmZnlYQkU/Migrating-from-Microsoft-Office-to-OpenOfficeorg-or-StarOffice-9.htm";> -Migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org or StarOffice 9 (Developer.com)</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/noei7JK1uPNcLvTEkmwOPAWoKtE/0/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/noei7JK1uPNcLvTEkmwOPAWoKtE/0/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> -<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/noei7JK1uPNcLvTEkmwOPAWoKtE/1/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/noei7JK1uPNcLvTEkmwOPAWoKtE/1/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=d1HmZnlYQkU:bVm7nSmBMNE:yIl2AUoC8zA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=d1HmZnlYQkU:bVm7nSmBMNE:7Q72WNTAKBA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"; 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post to make it clearer that what I was <em>actually asking</em> was about whether the company is becoming the next organisation that we <em><strong>love to hate</strong></em> because of the increasing level of criticism aimed at it and it&#8217;s flagship product <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a>. </p> +<p>Today, the 15th February, <a href="http://www.itwire.com/sam-varghese">Sam Varghese</a> has written about a conversation <a href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/36820-im-not-driven-by-microsoft-hatred-shuttleworth">iTWire have had</a> with Mark Shuttleworth regarding my original post. Unfortunately not only does he seem to have missed the point of that original post, but he also writes as though I was making an accusation or statement rather than asking a question:</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was responding to queries from iTWire about a recent blog post that has claimed Canonical is becoming the new Microsoft.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>He goes on to list some of the points I made:</p> +<blockquote><p>The blog post had listed a number of reasons why the writer thought Ubuntu was allegedly becoming the new Microsoft: the inclusion of Mono as a default; the creation of Ubuntu One, a proprietary software repository; removing the GIMP and other applications from Ubuntu; changing the default search engine to Yahoo!; discussion about what proprietary applications should be included in the Ubuntu repositories; and the appointment of Matt Asay as chief operating officer.</p></blockquote> +<p>Please, let&#8217;s get this straight. I have noteworthy opinions on one or two of the points I mentioned, but that was not the point of the post. They were supposed to be taken as examples of a collection of decisions that are apparently, in various quarters, providing the fuel for an increase of criticism overall.</p> +<p>Personally I really am not bothered about the Gimp being removed (it is easy to install), nor OpenOffice.org from the UNR (I actually install the desktop edition on my netbook anyway), nor am I upset about Ubuntu One; it&#8217;s an interesting solution, I use it sometimes myself and I&#8217;m sure a Windows version will be most welcome by many around the globe. Neither <a href="http://popey.com/blog/2010/01/26/yahoobuntu/#comment-1893">am I bothered</a> about the Yahoo search thing (If Canonical can get money from Microsoft then that&#8217;s just funny IMHO), and I was actually pleased about <a href="https://twitter.com/opensourcerer/status/8680203428">Matt Asay&#8217;s appointment</a>; he will bring a wealth of commercial experience, a good dose of much needed sales &#038; marketing skills to the operation and I&#8217;m sure much more besides.</p> +<p>Sam also didn&#8217;t mention any of this from my original post:</p> +<blockquote><p>I really like Ubuntu. I use it everywhere, I help in the Ubuntu-uk irc channel when I can and we [our company] promote Ubuntu to our customers and I [as an individual] to friends and family.</p> +<p>What concerns me is not any particular item in the list above: some I care about, others I do not; as I am sure many of you will do too. It is the increasing volume of criticism and vitriol as a whole. It is getting louder. This, I believe, is indicative of a turning tide that, if we are not careful, will result in Ubuntu losing popularity and more of the FOSS community exercising itâs freedom.</p></blockquote> +<p>I did not claim Canonical was becoming the new Microsoft. I asked if it might be. I also (admittedly not very clearly on my first pass) was interested in the reasons why Canonical/Ubuntu is getting more criticism directed at it at a time when it is becoming more successful and more important and was hoping to solicit some ideas and opinion as to how we could stop that increasing criticism and prevent what seems to be a fairly common occurrence with big and successful companies; we are even seeing it with Google now. Ubuntu/Canonical is built on very different principles to traditional commercial enterprises, so could we, as the community, come up with any ideas to prevent the &#8220;love-to-hate&#8221; syndrome?</p> +<p>I don&#8217;t read iTWire much. I only noticed this post from Sam as I had a couple of referred clicks to this blog today and was interested in where they were coming from. </p> +<p>Sam, your article paints me with a brush which I do not believe to be fair or accurate.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to digg" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to SlashDot" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/&t=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to FaceBook"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/facebook.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to FaceBook" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to FaceBook" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?t=Sam+Varghese+Got+It+Wrong%3F&c=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to MySpace"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/myspace.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to MySpace" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to MySpace" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/15/sam-varghese-got-it-wrong/" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Twitter"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/twitter.png" title="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Twitter" alt="Add 'Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?' to Twitter" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-02-15T17:41:56+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=839";> <title>John McCreesh: Itâs been so longâ¦</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/02/14/its-been-so-long/</link> @@ -233,14 +253,5 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/9w4fMcRa9vU" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-02-03T23:56:18+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/21959116";> - 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Unfortunately not only does he seem to have missed the point of that original post, but he also writes as though I was making an accusation or statement rather than asking a question:</p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was responding to queries from iTWire about a recent blog post that has claimed Canonical is becoming the new Microsoft.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>He goes on to list some of the points I made:</p> +<blockquote><p>The blog post had listed a number of reasons why the writer thought Ubuntu was allegedly becoming the new Microsoft: the inclusion of Mono as a default; the creation of Ubuntu One, a proprietary software repository; removing the GIMP and other applications from Ubuntu; changing the default search engine to Yahoo!; discussion about what proprietary applications should be included in the Ubuntu repositories; and the appointment of Matt Asay as chief operating officer.</p></blockquote> +<p>Please, let&#8217;s get this straight. I have noteworthy opinions on one or two of the points I mentioned, but that was not the point of the post. They were supposed to be taken as examples of a collection of decisions that are apparently, in various quarters, providing the fuel for an increase of criticism overall.</p> +<p>Personally I really am not bothered about the Gimp being removed (it is easy to install), nor OpenOffice.org from the UNR (I actually install the desktop edition on my netbook anyway), nor am I upset about Ubuntu One; it&#8217;s an interesting solution, I use it sometimes myself and I&#8217;m sure a Windows version will be most welcome by many around the globe. Neither <a href="http://popey.com/blog/2010/01/26/yahoobuntu/#comment-1893">am I bothered</a> about the Yahoo search thing (If Canonical can get money from Microsoft then that&#8217;s just funny IMHO), and I was actually pleased about <a href="https://twitter.com/opensourcerer/status/8680203428">Matt Asay&#8217;s appointment</a>; he will bring a wealth of commercial experience, a good dose of much needed sales &#038; marketing skills to the operation and I&#8217;m sure much more besides.</p> +<p>Sam also didn&#8217;t mention any of this from my original post:</p> +<blockquote><p>I really like Ubuntu. I use it everywhere, I help in the Ubuntu-uk irc channel when I can and we [our company] promote Ubuntu to our customers and I [as an individual] to friends and family.</p> +<p>What concerns me is not any particular item in the list above: some I care about, others I do not; as I am sure many of you will do too. It is the increasing volume of criticism and vitriol as a whole. It is getting louder. This, I believe, is indicative of a turning tide that, if we are not careful, will result in Ubuntu losing popularity and more of the FOSS community exercising itâs freedom.</p></blockquote> +<p>I did not claim Canonical was becoming the new Microsoft. I asked if it might be. I also (admittedly not very clearly on my first pass) was interested in the reasons why Canonical/Ubuntu is getting more criticism directed at it at a time when it is becoming more successful and more important and was hoping to solicit some ideas and opinion as to how we could stop that increasing criticism and prevent what seems to be a fairly common occurrence with big and successful companies; we are even seeing it with Google now. Ubuntu/Canonical is built on very different principles to traditional commercial enterprises, so could we, as the community, come up with any ideas to prevent the &#8220;love-to-hate&#8221; syndrome?</p> +<p>I don&#8217;t read iTWire much. 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