Shuttleworth and Bacon should forget the spin and deal with the facts
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is top of the class when it comes to producing a GNU/Linux distribution that appeals to newcomers and caters to their needs.
But that's far from being its only area of expertise. Canonical is also top class when it comes to spin. Any criticism levelled at the company is met by a much bigger reaction from its owner Mark Shuttleworth who not many dare to contradict. Often, following is his steps is his acolyte, the company's community manager, Jono Bacon.
This time, the criticism has been based on statistics presented in a study at the GNOME Users' and Developers' European Conference by senior GNOME project member Dave Neary.
These statistics, presented as the GNOME Census, show that Canonical, despite tying its release schedule to GNOME and being quite dependent on the project, contributes only 1.03 percent of the commits made to upstream.
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There is something just irritating about the Shuttle/Bacon duo.
Whenever I see blog comments or posts or magazine articles from the two aforementioned gentlemen, I think how is my blood pressure at the moment because Mr Bacon in particular just plain gets under my skin with every word he utters.
I have been using Unix/Linux for about 22 years and currently am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as my main OS. It works for me and I think its a great distro.
I can't help but think that Mark/Jono really would do the distro a better service by keeping much of the spin in the office and not share it with us all. I am sure that their comments lead many prospective Ubuntu users to think twice.
Sorry in advance if this aggravates anyone but you know how it is, some people just do that to ya.