James> The company is moving completely away from arch. Yeah, and that's the irony.
What it looks like from here is that Arch enabled Canonical to bootstrap quickly and relatively efficiently. Mark even cites `tla' as an inspiration for Canonical and it only takes a small leap to conclude that my writings on how Arch can improve the distribution business reached his ear directly or indirectly (and also, apparently, imperfectly). In what is at least graceless and arguably unprofessional ways y'all screwed both the users and the upstream project, thoroughly. Baz-ng, which looks to me to most likely wind up as an "also ran", is a poor excuse. Launchpad's investment to value-returned ratio, from all perspectives, doesn't look very promising. To rescue a business model, Canonical's technical and community ambitions are likely to contract and you'll wind up being a support company for UserLinux-by-another- name propped up by a modest number of contracts from people uncomfortable buying from a USian company like Novell. That's all well and good for paying a bit of rent and mortgages but meanwhile: You've overgrazed the commons, missed larger opportunities due to a misguided interest in starting piss fights, and your biggest impact is "nothing but driving a good man from his home." -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
