In fact, Gmail thought this /was/ spam. Imho, Stack Overflow is not spiritually a good match for Ubuntu. As a product. That said, and issues of integration with the Ubuntu dev ecosystem aside, functionally it surpasses Launchpad as a simple and low-bar-to-entry solution for q&a. You could consider this as loosely analogous to using proprietary hardware drivers, when an equally functional oss driver is not available.
I think the solution here is to extend Launchpad, honestly. A Stack Overflow instance would definitely be useful, but I don't know if Canonical/Ubuntu should take ownership of it. Doesn't seem to fit. -- Isaac Bowen On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Be Netritious <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm fairly new to Ubuntu (little over a year) but I am surprised by > the reaction to this idea. > > Until yesterday when the initial email came in I had not heard of > stack overflow, but it's an interesting web site that seems to cater > to all things technical and geared towards programmers. As a > programmer myself I welcome more resources, even ones that might > challenge or compete with Ubuntu resources. Competition brings to > light what is good, but more importantly what is better. > > If I could sum up the reaction I would say it's been overwhelmingly > critical of stack overflow being closed source, which is an illogical > argument since Ubuntu LoCo's use twitter and facebook, both of which > are proprietary platforms. > > The argument that having additional resources "would spread Ubuntu > thin" is just, well, also illogical. It's "Spread Ubuntu" not "Spread > Ubuntu this much [ ] then stop." The first tutorial I followed to > setup a HA cluster for VMware Server on Ubuntu was from How To Forge > as no such tutorial existed on Ubuntu's plethora of web sites. Without > that tutorial this user would still be using Windows or some other > distribution. The success of that third-party tutorial was Ubuntu's > success -- Ubuntu gained a new user, a new LoCo team member, and > (hopefully one day) an official representative. > > Ubuntu in itself is convoluted to the new user. I had to register with > launchpad, register with the forums, setup PGP to sign a Code of > Conduct, etc. It didn't stop me nor would it stop anyone else that's > truly interested in joining a LoCo, and just because there are > additional resources on another web site doesn't mean Ubuntu users > cannot benefit from them, and it doesn't mean that existing Ubuntu > resources would suffer from it. > > Also why is it a problem that web sites monetize traffic from > advertisements? I bet you all use Google, and not all projects have > backing from zillionaires like Mark Shuttleworth. > > I truly don't see what all the fuss is about. The only complaint I > have is the method in which the message was delivered. I don't think > that the LoCo mailing lists are the most appropriate place to > advertise third party web sites. In fact I thought this was another > instance of spam getting through the system until I read it closely. > > Kindest Regards, > Rich Gray (netritious) > #ubuntu-us-tn / http://ubuntu-tennessee.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMQQG1AAoJEG+eQkpwMcno7O8IAJnY4nsRDTGiW5FFDyLCBjzo > XffrYYtQ5m5NadI06P3xuAKGenjKpRm3PRNzm011iupMx7pXnZyUlVAMDNHUPq+Q > H9eVKreO3CeVJH3lDshHfuh9Nz5gCevAHfY9aYc4lS0/JQw9N0ucIVE8DLUzQZoq > Z0SJLzhKbfLqu9VHYa5rCNTatsxgLyCYu2dwtRozRnYeHH1dBeFek0lb2YRrEObP > RS909WRggjGlWGuduJZL1s/51EbhZS6BocZXzUCgiaQEap6IWR6+mBm2Ifi8Icvy > +aIdUIRc+x2z04S3gDMOotP7M2iWj9GkTF8FkXYC7Y2XUZqKw1TwT4KjRc+8xYc= > =HLH+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >
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