[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-07-24 Thread Sidnei da Silva
Fix released, now Launchpad is Open Source. ** Also affects: launchpad Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: launchpad Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: launchpad Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: launchpad Milestone: None => 2.2.7 -- Ubu

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-16 Thread Dan Trevino
About the most useful comment that can be added is: *yawn* Everything else is just noise. -- Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377005 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-16 Thread bigbrovar
I think this mission statement on http://www.canonical.com/aboutus should be modified to reflect the reality so as not to create a confusion "Our mission Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations by: * delivering the world's best f

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-16 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mark, Thanks for responding. Although, I notice that you did not respond about the original point of Canonical developing proprietary software (the implication being that this will continue). I don't think I have much more to write about the subject than I have, but at least we have confirmation

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Ubuntu was founded together with Canonical, they have always been (and I hope they always will be) intertwined and interdependent. There are thousands of projects and hundreds of distributions, which have various degrees of involvement between themselves and companies. Contributors already align th

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-15 Thread Jerome S. Gotangco
This is like saying a software company involved in open source, one way or another has no rights to do other things that are perhaps non-open source in origin for their right to engage in business. So pretty much every company out there, even Red Hat and SuSE. -- Ubuntu is too attached to Canonic

[Bug 377005] Re: Ubuntu is too attached to Canonical

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
So, I find it kind of interesting that this post hasn't been responded by anyone despite it being a number of hours since it was posted. But there has been some discussion about it on the autonomo.us mailing list, that has ended with this: Josh Berkus writes: > Guys, > >>> The Ubuntu community s