by mrsebastian on 10/18/12, 5:29 PM with 56 comments
by benologist on 10/18/12, 6:33 PM
Their other employees/accounts include:
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 (their social media manager)
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly
Then there's also maxko87 and evo_9 but I haven't figured out what their connection is yet, maxko87 autosubmits extremetech articles and evo_9's usage mirrors ukdm's who submits ~50% geek.com + ~50% a small group of other sites, but for extremetech.
by Karunamon on 10/18/12, 6:18 PM
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</snark>by abc_lisper on 10/18/12, 6:33 PM
by imchillyb on 10/18/12, 6:37 PM
This is the person that forced his user base into living with interface and design decisions they did not want. The decisions made by Shuttleworth have nothing to do with FOSS or the users. His decisions were made solely with personal goals in mind. Mr. Shuttleworth desired a single code base for Ubuntu. That meant merging the desktop version of Ubuntu and his proposed baby, the portable device version of Ubuntu. Mouse and keyboard do not function well on portable devices so...enter Unity.
All of these things would be fine, if Mr. Shuttleworth did not claim that all of this was to provide his users with a superior experience. We already had a wonderful experience. Now, not so much.
I will now be replacing all of my machines', and our corporate machines' Ubuntu installs with an alternate flavor of Linux. I was willing to live with the Unity change, I was willing to live with the Grub change. I am not willing to live with this.
FOSS is not built upon secret sauce Mr. Shuttleworth. For shame!
by dude_abides on 10/18/12, 6:29 PM
by donniezazen on 10/18/12, 6:56 PM
by zzleeper on 10/18/12, 6:40 PM
I switched from Win7 to 12.04 a few weeks ago, but it's full of tiny-yet-annoying bugs. EG: sometimes a program disapears from ALT-TAB and I need to minimize everything else to find it. Or the resize-window border that is barely half a pixel thin.
by Zigurd on 10/18/12, 6:56 PM
Ultimately it's not crucially important. But it's also unnecessary. And if you don't have Google's resources behind your behind-closed-doors development, you could be missing out on community contributions.
by acabal on 10/18/12, 7:13 PM
Much of the criticism Unity and various other features received was well-deserved, because Canonical released essentially alpha software. Then when the criticism comes in, the defense is, "hey take it easy guys, we weren't done yet!" Well if you're not done--don't release!
There's a middle ground here: develop and design in public, but don't release until you're truly ready. Everyone says that sticking to LTS is the only way to guarantee a stable system, but that's just not practical in the milestone-distro world, where an important update to one piece of software you find critical requires an update to the entire system.
by theevocater on 10/18/12, 10:24 PM
He is paying to have code developed to help improve Ubuntu and he happens to want to get somewhat polished versions of it before they release to public. Why is this bad? Sometimes people release early/often and that works for them. In this case Shuttleworth and by extension Canonical believe that releasing at the polished stage is beneficial.
Plus its not like there is some uber-secret group in a dark chamber coding this stuff up -- you just have to be an ubuntu developer with a little bit of traction to be part of it.
by mistercow on 10/18/12, 7:22 PM
Instead, you have to express that you are working on some really kick-ass features and you want them to really "pop" when they debut. You have to focus on the positives and pretend that the critics don't exist. (Publicly, that is; internally, you had better listen to the critics).
by stephengillie on 10/18/12, 6:00 PM
by viraptor on 10/18/12, 7:08 PM
by BruceIV on 10/18/12, 7:10 PM
by nnq on 10/18/12, 7:19 PM