Canonical never ever was about what the community wanted, or what is best for its users. I am no Canonical-Hater, but how can anybody be surprised about things

Canonical never ever was about what the community wanted, or what is best for its users. I am no Canonical-Hater, but how can anybody be surprised about things like that? Their attitude always has been: Comply, or switch. Ubuntu has never been a democratic open-source project like many others, it's a product produced by a company, backed up by a community which is happy to use it and actively helps in certain ways. Ubuntu also never has been the product for me that i install on older hardware, and there are plenty of distributions around for doing exactly that. (Debian would be my preferred choice for that task) Everything they do is a strategic business move. Their competitors are Windows and Mac OS and that is what they want to compete with. The hardware requirements of Ubuntu are still very solid when you compare Ubuntu with its rivals This article is just laughable. It's like it was written by someone who has just realized for the first time what Ubuntu has been about from the very beginning of the project. How is anything about this new? "While there may be some exceptions, I believe that Canonical is aiming its sights directly on new OEM partners" Get out of here, i never would have thought of that. "By limiting anyone who wants to try Ubuntu to Unity 3D, Canonical is being painfully shortsighted." Yes, they have never ever done anything else before that, that was purely strategic and not only for the sake of the community. And the stupidest thing of all: "Expecting users to upgrade merely to keep pace with the Unity desktop environment, however, is a genuine travesty in my humble opinion." -> You don't need to upgrade your hardware to use a GNU/Linux system. -> You don't need to upgrade your hardware to use Ubuntu (they don't "lock" you in) Why am i relatively angry about this? Because whenever i have spoken with people from the Ubuntu community or have made suggestions here and there it always was "shut up and comply", "if you are not happy then switch" and so on, and no i read things like that... It's just so naive..... To the author: Comply or switch, that is their policy. Nobody at Canonical gives a crap about what you as an individual think. It's that easy and it always has been that easy....