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Mark changed his mind a lot and Canonical has started and cancelled many projects to the point it's hard to care about their new stuff anymore. Oh you're suppo

Mark changed his mind a lot and Canonical has started and cancelled many projects to the point it's hard to care about their new stuff anymore. Oh you're supporting netbooks and doing a distro related to it? Cancelled. Oh you started a cloud service that stores files forever? Cancelled. Oh you created a competitor to X and Wayland for compositing? Cancelled. Oh you created an alternative window manager to replace Gnome She'll? Cancelled. Did they cancel their phone yet? Didn't they have some kind of $30,000 server they were talking about for a while that wad cancelled? It's hard to keep up with all their cancelled projects.

themodelplumber 8y ago
Sure, it's a bummer to see potentially cool stuff get canceled. But Ubuntu was all about innovation from the start. I wouldn't mind seeing twice as many canceled projects, because it's a sign that you're willing to put yourself out there and fail often. Innovation has a cost, and if part of that cost is "we can't support netbooks but other distros will, heck you can even use Xubuntu if you want" that's fine with me.
- thefifthsetpin 8y ago
  > Ubuntu was all about innovation from the start I thought it was about making a distro that was approachable and accessible? Source: vaguely remembered "What does ubuntu mean?" promo videos from many years ago.
  - themodelplumber 8y ago
    Yes, and at the time that was a huge innovation. Don't ask a neckbeard, but it was a huge innovation.
- mixmastamyk 8y ago
  That would be fine if they were choices on the side, but most of these were foisted on users as the default choice, only to be canceled later. Making the whole exercise a complete waste of time rather than an interesting experiment. For example, they could have instead contributed to MATE for the last decade, and it might finally be as good as Windows 2000.
h1d 8y ago
Challenging on new things needs courage. He has paid for all the cancelled projects. Did it cost you any? Any you complaining just because you can't catch up?
- dman 8y ago
  Is Ubuntu not a profitable entity at this point? Is Mark still paying for everything out of pocket?

themodelplumber 8y ago

Sure, it's a bummer to see potentially cool stuff get canceled. But Ubuntu was all about innovation from the start. I wouldn't mind seeing twice as many canceled projects, because it's a sign that you're willing to put yourself out there and fail often. Innovation has a cost, and if part of that cost is "we can't support netbooks but other distros will, heck you can even use Xubuntu if you want" that's fine with me.

thefifthsetpin 8y ago
> Ubuntu was all about innovation from the start I thought it was about making a distro that was approachable and accessible? Source: vaguely remembered "What does ubuntu mean?" promo videos from many years ago.
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  Yes, and at the time that was a huge innovation. Don't ask a neckbeard, but it was a huge innovation.
mixmastamyk 8y ago
That would be fine if they were choices on the side, but most of these were foisted on users as the default choice, only to be canceled later. Making the whole exercise a complete waste of time rather than an interesting experiment. For example, they could have instead contributed to MATE for the last decade, and it might finally be as good as Windows 2000.

h1d 8y ago

Challenging on new things needs courage. He has paid for all the cancelled projects. Did it cost you any? Any you complaining just because you can't catch up?

dman 8y ago
Is Ubuntu not a profitable entity at this point? Is Mark still paying for everything out of pocket?