On 09/04/2011 11:04, Paul Gear wrote:
On 08/04/11 12:01, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
...
I am back to using 11.04 with Gnome and I think it is great. Yes I think there
will be a lot of disatisfied
users. But they will always be able to go back to Gnome. But 11.10 will be
the issue when Gnome will not be
availale.
If that is the case, 11.10 will probably the release where i leave
Ubuntu for a distribution which offers more choice (in my case
Debian). I think this is an indicator of the difference in philosophy
between Debian and Ubuntu. Debian's priorities are the principles of
Free Software and its users [1]. It seems that Ubuntu's priority is
solving bug #1. Much as i agree that bug #1 needs solving, and that
Ubuntu must outdo Windows and Mac in order to win market share
(although i remain sceptical about whether Unity will make any
appreciable difference to this), my computer is a productivity tool
for /me/, not for all those people who don't yet use Linux.
By saying that it will drop support for my existing (working!) desktop
environment, Canonical is showing that they're more interested in
their future users than their current ones. I can understand this,
because i've never given them any money (and even when i tried i
couldn't manage to do it), but it just seems to me that there must be
a way to serve the interests of both sets of users without causing
instability and without deprecating desktop environments that are
suitable for more advanced users (more on these points at [2]).
Paul
[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
[2] http://libertysys.com.au/node/101
Very well said!
BC
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