Comments on: Why I don’t like Canonical

By: Goodbye Ubuntu, hello Fedora « Volker Radke

Goodbye Ubuntu, hello Fedora « Volker Radke — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:42:43 +0000

[...] Adam Williamson hat bereits – natürlich auch aus der Sicht des Ubuntu-Konkurrenten – in Frage gestellt, ob Ubuntu für das Linux-Ökosystem langfristig wirklich von Nutzen ist. Das Fedora-Boardmitglied [...]

By: La malvada Ubuntu ataca de nuevo « Noticias del web

La malvada Ubuntu ataca de nuevo « Noticias del web — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:01:29 +0000

[...] a pesar de que cumplían todas las reglas existentes, incluidas las de la propia Debian. Ahora, en este artículo, un trabajador de Mandriva acusa a Canonical básicamente de “competencia desleal”: El [...]

By: c'est s

c'est s — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:47:13 +0000

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By: Ubuntu (vs) Linux « Opino Porque Si

Ubuntu (vs) Linux « Opino Porque Si — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:42:23 +0000

[...] libre, segun distintas opiniones. Justamente este problema aparecio en la blogosfera por un post de Adam Williamson, quien trabaja para Mandriva. (Aquí se puede leer su opinión en español). Adam [...]

By: The Shade Of The Ecosystem | jonobacon@home

The Shade Of The Ecosystem | jonobacon@home — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:18:20 +0000

[...] define us in so many ways. Unfortunately, the very same condition causes clued-up people to write essays of total unparalleled nonsense. I know I am a bit late to the party, but I felt compelled to write a few [...]

By: Por qué no me gusta canonical según AdamW « sadtyus word’s

Por qué no me gusta canonical según AdamW « sadtyus word’s — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:36:40 +0000

[...] el blog de Adam Williamson nos econtramos una reflexión muy interesante,sobre las razones que tiene para estar en desacuerdo [...]

By: adamw’s very own blog » Blog Archive » Student. Teacher.

adamw’s very own blog » Blog Archive » Student. Teacher. — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:46:53 +0000

[...] one who has dabbled in the art of the controversial blog post myself, I must bow down before a master when I recognize [...]

By: La malvada Ubuntu ataca de nuevo | Mundo Linux

La malvada Ubuntu ataca de nuevo | Mundo Linux — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:06:49 +0000

By: admin

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:40:54 +0000

static: that argument just doesn’t really hold up. We provide a service to application developers, we don’t steal their work. We provide a framework in which people – and they themselves – can use their applications. Do you think GNOME developers actually want to maintain an entire distribution themselves for them to work on GNOME in? Of course they don’t. They all run a distribution.

We don’t sell any free software. All the free software in Mandriva is available free. Heck, all the redistributable non-free software in Mandriva is available free. The only things we sell are commercial software – packages that legally cannot be distributed to the general public – and services.

By: staticsoda

staticsoda — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:35:51 +0000

Man I got no quarrel with you.
I read your post.

But every man should ask himself two questions:
What have you done for your fellow man?
Are you your brothers’ keeper?

Look at the yield.

This wood you speak of is the software Mandriva packages and sells. Just like all the other distributions.

You are not carving anything on that wood. You just wrap it up. You are a distributor like Walmart. The actual artisan has his work stolen by you essentially.

Seriously are you paying the guy that makes pidgin any proceeds from your sales of the Mandriva OS? I think Google pays that guy. Are you paying Google? Have you paid KDE, QT?

For the record, Slackware, Novel/Suse, Redhat, Vector, and all the other comerical based distributions are ripping off the developers.

It’s similar to a Preacher that begs money in the church house. A long time ago a Preacher would have a day job.e.

Dire Straits summed it up best,

“And Harry doesn’t mind if he doesn’t make the scene. He’s got a daytime job he’s doing alright. He can play honky tonk just like anything “