I can never understand some elements of the Linux community to speak ill of other community members success. Ubuntu is probably the best thing thats ever happe

I can never understand some elements of the Linux community to speak ill of other community members success. Ubuntu is probably the best thing thats ever happened to the Linux desktop - its being installed by manufacturers the world over and thats years of contributions that are actually being used by people. I'm at a bit of a loss to what Greg feels Canonical should do about this. Stop offering Ubuntu? Have Mark post a warm and fuzzy blog post? High-five Redhat engineers every time their code works? Canonical have done a monumental service to the open source community via their Launchpad service. They provide space for documentation, VCS hosting, issue tracking, repository hosting and build services. They enable communities. I'd also like to make a special mention to the thousands of hours Canonical engineers and Ubuntu community members spend pulling patches from "downstream" (other distributions including Ubuntu) and pushing them upstream (the kernel, GNOME, KDE, Xorg, etc) - this sort of behaviour fosters better software for the whole community - not just Ubuntu.