After all the critics on Ubuntu or it's community - I want to clearly state, that
1. I appreciate the community A LOT! It gives me a good feeling of not being left alone with the computer problems. And I know what I am talking about because I experienced also the prior-internet times where I was pretty alone with all problems coming up - I had a few fellows in school I could talk about but that was it. 2. Although there are a few things that are very annoying, the overall experience with the computer for me got much more positive since my move to Linux and even more when switching from Fedora to Ubuntu. 3. Looking at the relations - e.g Red Hat having about 3200, Novell about 3600, IBM more than 300000(!) and Canonical having just about 350 employees - Canonical should not be criticized too much for not contributing enough to Linux as a whole (which I read several times during the last months). 4. Of course I appreciate the work of ALL companies and people contributing to the Linux kernel, Gnome and all the other software pieces that are part of the whole Linux repositories. Without those the naked OS would be nothing worth looking at. 5. If I would put all the time I invested into Linux with testing and bug reporting or simply documenting stuff (even if mostly only in forums and on my blog so far although it is my plan to do more contributions on the Wiki) into money numbers, I could have bought a Windows license + a bulk of commercial software - but: I and everybody else participating is MAKING THIS BETTER! - This is the big difference. With the investment you help to make it better. This is very different from investing into license fees where you don't know what will be done with the money. You help to make it better for everyone else and others are helping you out either with their contributions. This is true cooperation - win-win-situations. So everyone contributing - be proud and receive my thanks. -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
