On 07/31/2010 12:45 PM, Balaji Damodaran wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 11:24 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Sorry but that makes no sense. If someone preaches something, it is >> obvious to ask, have you followed what you preach? Why should we >> ignore the history of the person saying it? > > alright, I wanted this discussion to stick to the 'tribalism' and not > on the merits & demerits of Mark Shuttleworth. I don't have any > reasons or facts to defend him. I don't want to. Lets just hope that > similar blog post is written by someone we respect in the industry, so > that at least then we'll discuss whats written in it (hopefully in a > php website, if it was in asp.net we brand him as an idiot) > > Do people hate Ubuntu and Shuttleworth or what! anyways, I'm going > back to coding.
I don't hate him but it is hypocritical of anyone to preach what they themselves don't follow. Here is a quote http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/77 "As free software becomes more successful and more pervasive there will be an increasing desire on the part of companies to make it more proprietary. We’ve already seen that with Red Hat and Novell, which essentially offer free software on proprietary terms – their “really free” editions are not certified, carry no support and receive no systematic security patching. In other words – they’re beta or test versions" This claims Red Hat and Novell are not really offering Free software and it also claims Fedora and openSUSE are just test versions offering no systematic security patching. To put it directly, these are just lies and obvious lies to smear the competition and promoting your own product. In the Free software world, the competing vendors are actually technology partners as well and both Red Hat and Novell release far more free software than Canonical ever did and Canonical relies on every day as part of their product. Red Hat also has a dedicated approach to Free software that Canonical does not match. c,f Landscape, Ubuntu one etc. Instead of giving credit where it is due, engaging in this level of dishonesty looks like tribalism to me. In the same post that talks about tribalism, he also compares with with sexism and obviously, the moral weight of the track record on this will be pointed to. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
