Jono Bacon

Great reply in the comments from Ubuntu users here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/

... :-( Condolences to my fellow Fedora community members and those who have worked with him at Red Hat. He will be missed. Thanks Jono Bacon for his message: http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/07/09/remembering-seth-vidal/

I just want to point out that the link is for user submitted design suggestions and is not necessarily official Canonical plan of record for what will ship. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/01/23/community-driven-ubuntu-phone-core… It's a subtle distinction I wanted to point out. Not speaking on behalf of Canonical, just in my own capacity.

Actual link rather than to Slashdot discussion: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/ The problem for me is that isn't addressed by this is the decision to make it default on in Ubuntu. That failure of judgement* means that I can't trust them not to change something else that I have to notice and find out how to easily disable. Easy to turn off is not good enough for such a feature. Edit to add: Basically I think RMS is right about this one (as he often is) although in many cases I make compromises that he would find wholly unacceptable. * It might be ethics but I would give Canonical the benefit of the doubt on that one.

Video: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/07/19/web-app-integration-in-ubuntu/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4267348

I think this clarifies things: "There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME apps, and we optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference is that Unity is a different shell for GNOME, but we continue to support the latest GNOME Shell development work in the Ubuntu archives" From: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/

They claim the slowness is due to Mutter. They say the are moving (back?) to Compiz, and that it improves performance a lot. http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/

The title of this article doesn't conform with the facts. According to Jono Bacon[1]: "There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME apps, and we optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference is that Unity is a different shell for GNOME, but we continue to support the latest GNOME Shell development work in the Ubuntu archives." [1] http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/

This reminded me the story of "unpaid internships" (http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/19/two-ubuntu-community-team-intern-o… IMHO, there's nothing wrong, but their HR can do it better?

Ubuntu seem to be aware of these kinds of arguments: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/23/ubuntu-community-team-opportunitie…

While the images don't seem to want to load there's a good writeup at: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/03/refreshing-the-ubuntu-brand/

Here's a sort of reply to these sort of articles from Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community manager: http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/06/the-intersection-of-quality-and-ex…

This is actually a response to some Ubuntu contributors very publicly leaving the project, and not to criticism from users. This is the blog post that started it off: http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/ And here some the many responses in the past two days (remember, these are Ubuntu members, not random users), many of them agree that there's something wrong with the Ubuntu community of contributors: http://randall.executiv.es/ubuntu-stage-next http://blog.pault.ag/post/44821301540/ubuntu-the-community http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/08/thoughts-on-recent-community-conce… http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1235 http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/divisive-leadership/ http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1232 http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=28 http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/thoughts-and-worries-about-… http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/confessions-of-a-communit… http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=7670 http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/freedom-and-community/

> Does anyone know of any other incidents that make case against centralized servers? Yes. Many of these are undemocratic, but others are merely unintentional problems of reliability induced by a single point of failure. http://www.delicious.com/kragen/decentralization-stories has a few dozen items up through 2008. http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html livejournal users want more control of livejournal. decentralization-stories omg decentralization-stories: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-google-owns-you/ http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-gets-back-to-nick/ http://valleywag.com/5053704/kentucky-judge-moves-to-seize-gambling-si… more decentralization-stories: caribbeangold.com, etc., censored http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341378 more decentralization-stories: legal intimidation takes a site offline http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry28 decentralization-stories: the TWiki Takeover http://norayounis.com/2008/11/04/308 The impressive flickr account of blogger and friend Hossam el-Hamalawy is facing censorship by flickr themselves! First they disabled pro-palestine photos he had taken in Ireland, then they started searching their old drawers for reasons to un-list his account from public search. decentralization-stories http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/04/flick-censors-my-account/ more details. ugly. decentralization-stories http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/05/support-the-arabist/ global voices picks it…