ripping on ubuntu is the new black
One of the annoying features of reading several planets, is that you end up reading entries from people you otherwise respect, who seem to have various complexes about nonsensical issues. We all saw the month in which half of Debian decided it was cool to rip on Ubuntu, and now apparently it's the new cool thing to do if you work on Fedora.
According to a particularly obnoxious entry, the quality or otherwise of Ubuntu's kernel[0] does 'damage to the free software community'. Now, they've focussed on binary drivers. Which is fair enough: I am personally quite uncomfortable with binary drivers, and extremely unimpressed with Ubuntu's recent move towards binary drivers by default. While I respect the fact that they still encourage users to install free drivers, providing them by default is not a winning move, in my opinion. But I'm not going to discuss this further right now, because if I do, the terrorists win.
The reason the terrorists win, is because some people like to furiously handwave and make strawmen. Apparently now, everyone who's ever touched Ubuntu is rabidly for binary drivers, but the problem here is the handwave from criticism of Fedora's alleged community into yet another ramble about the kernel tree and binary drivers.
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