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Maybe there could be a kickstarter to just pay Siracusa to write 26,000 words about ubuntu?

• keithpeter 14y ago
  That is touching my open source nerve, the penguins ought to be able to assemble something like this themselves.
  • Tloewald 14y ago
    This is hilarious. Mythical man ymonth applied to writing. Let's crowd source some more Tolstoy novels while we're at it.
    • keithpeter 14y ago
      A review of a computer system is hardly a major work of art. Brooks' n(n+1)/2 won't kick in until we exceed five or ten people I think.
• alexwlchan 14y ago
  Even if you could raise the money, I doubt that he would do it, or that it would be comparable to his OS X articles. If you listen to Hypercritical (his weekly 5by5 podcast), you'll have heard that he struggles just getting the OS X reviews out the door. Since Apple is trying to move to a yearly release cycle, that’s just going to get harder. When’s he going to get the time to write an Ubuntu review? It’s also worth considering that, “He has been a Mac user since 1984” (from his Ars bio). Part of what makes his reviews so good is his deep-rooted knowledge of the Mac platform, and having watched OS X (and previous versions of Mac OS) “grow up”, so to speak. I don’t know how much experience he has with Ubuntu, but I bet it’s not as extensive as OS X. And that’s putting aside all the arguments of whether it’s a good thing to do, or whether the Ubuntu community would want him to write such a thing.