<quote who="Josh Berkus" date="Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:08:00PM -0700"> > Guys, > > >> The Ubuntu community should decide if they want to be associated, > >> governed and ruled by a proprietary software company, and should appoint > >> non-Canonical people to all the key positions. > > > > Or they could admit that Ubuntu is de facto controlled by Canonical > > anyway and appoint Canonical people to all the key positions. :-) > > I think that Ubuntu One was a poor choice of name for a variety of > reasons (not the least of which is that it's crappy marketing; the name > doesn't give you a clue what it does), but I also think it could have > been dealt with more diplomatically. Mark is a fairly easy guy to reach > and he does listen.
It's far from clear to me that any final decision has been made. The way that controversy in Ubuntu is usually dealt with is that folks tend to let wait until the flame war has run its course and then have a reasonable conversation about it. I suspect that will happen at the community council meeting in a week or so. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [email protected] http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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