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Or, just maybe because she's a smart, sophisticated, charismatic leader, with engineering degrees in both computer science and mathematics, and business managem

Or, just maybe because she's a smart, sophisticated, charismatic leader, with engineering degrees in both computer science and mathematics, and business management degrees from Oxford and Vanderbilt? Jane has been one of the most powerful, honest, decisive, and passionate person in the open source technology world for the last 14 years. In an industry fraught with executive impropriety, her integrity has set the golden standard by which I'll forever measure any other CEO that I ever work for, or hope to become. Mark and Jane together have long provided the yin and yang balance that's so fundamental to the indelible passion that is Canonical and Ubuntu. She will be missed, and she will go on to do even more incredible things. @dustinkirkland

4ad 10y ago
> Or, just maybe because [...] Yes, that's possible. It's also possible Canonical's PR department will say anything on social media forums to save face. > [...] She will be missed, and she will go on to do even more incredible things. Do you genuinely believe the HN audience doesn't see through bullshit corporate speak like this?
lsh 10y ago
You're not fooling anyone, Jane.
- lsh 10y ago
  aha - lighten up, downvoters.
pkd 10y ago
Since Canonical receives a huge backlash whenever "Mir" or "Unity" are mentioned, I wanted to tell you that Unity was absolutely fantastic as a desktop. I have tried and used many platforms and in many ways (except only hi-dpi support) Unity was the best desktop on the market across all operating systems. I also hope that you and Mark and the rest of the team understand that the constant hate was by a vocal minority rather than the majority. Most people were happy with Unity because it just worked and could be extremely powerful at the same time. And I don't know if you've heard this enough, so thank you for creating such a great piece of software that made Linux on the desktop accessible to hundreds of thousands of people.
- keithpeter 10y ago
  I gather from the original statement by Mark Shuttleworth that the decision to cancel further development of Unity version 8 was a business decision based on not continuing development of the phone/mobile converged UI. I suspect (and hope) that Canonical just ignored the 'vocal minority' and carried on! Otherwise no-one would ever try anything new. I'm just wondering slightly how much of a Chandler the Unity 8 project was... https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/ https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/

4ad 10y ago

> Or, just maybe because [...] Yes, that's possible. It's also possible Canonical's PR department will say anything on social media forums to save face. > [...] She will be missed, and she will go on to do even more incredible things. Do you genuinely believe the HN audience doesn't see through bullshit corporate speak like this?

lsh 10y ago

You're not fooling anyone, Jane.

lsh 10y ago
aha - lighten up, downvoters.

pkd 10y ago

Since Canonical receives a huge backlash whenever "Mir" or "Unity" are mentioned, I wanted to tell you that Unity was absolutely fantastic as a desktop. I have tried and used many platforms and in many ways (except only hi-dpi support) Unity was the best desktop on the market across all operating systems. I also hope that you and Mark and the rest of the team understand that the constant hate was by a vocal minority rather than the majority. Most people were happy with Unity because it just worked and could be extremely powerful at the same time. And I don't know if you've heard this enough, so thank you for creating such a great piece of software that made Linux on the desktop accessible to hundreds of thousands of people.

keithpeter 10y ago
I gather from the original statement by Mark Shuttleworth that the decision to cancel further development of Unity version 8 was a business decision based on not continuing development of the phone/mobile converged UI. I suspect (and hope) that Canonical just ignored the 'vocal minority' and carried on! Otherwise no-one would ever try anything new. I'm just wondering slightly how much of a Chandler the Unity 8 project was... https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/ https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/