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Ask HN: Do you think Ubuntu has lost its way

7 points by kracekumar 14y ago

CurtHagenlocher 14y ago
Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995 and then sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning about US$ 575 million. Does this sound like a man whose stance needs to "shift towards capitalism"?
- kracekumar 14y ago
  Good point. I intended from Ubuntu point of view.
thedeuce 14y ago
Whats wrong with capitalism? Anyway, unless you're some religious whack-job Microsoft hater I don't see whats wrong with this; or how it relates to Ubuntu "losing it's way". Linux is a free alternative for anyone who needs or wants it, spreading it's use is great for everyone.. I praise MS for this one too, even though it's still not enough for me to want to use azure :)
PopaL 14y ago
Recently Microsoft Azure started supporting ubuntu and Mark shuttleworth praised microsoft, does Mark shuttleworth stand has shifted towards capitalism and forgot how often microsofts threatens GNU/Linux with patents. I'm sorry to tell you that your question is at best confuse. You mix Capitalism, Microsoft Azure and patents in the same phrase while questioning the "ways" of Ubuntu - this makes no sense. 1. If Ubuntu runs on an MS platform more power to Linux, this means even MS recognize the strength of Linux. 2. Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies. 3. Mark Shuttleworth is a businessman, don't confuse him with a member of FSF.
- kracekumar 14y ago
  >Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies. Agreed, but joining hands with someone who fight against linux(ubuntu is linux) for patents doesn't make sense.
  - PopaL 14y ago
    Last year MS was in the top 20 Linux kernel contributors: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kernel_contributions/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kern...
    - kracekumar 14y ago
      Yes, main reason was for virtualization(Hypervisior) and I remember greg kroah warning the code which they contributed had maintenance problems. That behaviour is expected from windows

7 points by kracekumar 14y ago

Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995 and then sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning about US$ 575 million. Does this sound like a man whose stance needs to "shift towards capitalism"?

kracekumar 14y ago
Good point. I intended from Ubuntu point of view.

thedeuce 14y ago

Whats wrong with capitalism? Anyway, unless you're some religious whack-job Microsoft hater I don't see whats wrong with this; or how it relates to Ubuntu "losing it's way". Linux is a free alternative for anyone who needs or wants it, spreading it's use is great for everyone.. I praise MS for this one too, even though it's still not enough for me to want to use azure :)

PopaL 14y ago

Recently Microsoft Azure started supporting ubuntu and Mark shuttleworth praised microsoft, does Mark shuttleworth stand has shifted towards capitalism and forgot how often microsofts threatens GNU/Linux with patents. I'm sorry to tell you that your question is at best confuse. You mix Capitalism, Microsoft Azure and patents in the same phrase while questioning the "ways" of Ubuntu - this makes no sense. 1. If Ubuntu runs on an MS platform more power to Linux, this means even MS recognize the strength of Linux. 2. Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies. 3. Mark Shuttleworth is a businessman, don't confuse him with a member of FSF.

kracekumar 14y ago
>Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies. Agreed, but joining hands with someone who fight against linux(ubuntu is linux) for patents doesn't make sense.
- PopaL 14y ago
  Last year MS was in the top 20 Linux kernel contributors: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kernel_contributions/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kern...
  - kracekumar 14y ago
    Yes, main reason was for virtualization(Hypervisior) and I remember greg kroah warning the code which they contributed had maintenance problems. That behaviour is expected from windows