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While I agree with most of you who says they are worried by this development, I understand and welcome this direction Ubuntu is taking, almost making their own,

While I agree with most of you who says they are worried by this development, I understand and welcome this direction Ubuntu is taking, almost making their own, not flavor but unique OS. Which is what people said HP should have done. It is frustrating being open source advocate, if software you use is somewhat inferior to what is available on other platforms, just try to use firefox on ubuntu and compare that to osx or windows. If Ubuntu manage to pull this off, and I think they deserve all our support in that, we will get inspiration for all the open source projects as well as good codebase they can fork and work with. I am not expert in licencing, but anything they accomplish can't be bad for the open source movement. My 2c.

keithpeter 14y ago
"It is frustrating being open source advocate, if software you use is somewhat inferior to what is available on other platforms, just try to use firefox on ubuntu and compare that to osx or windows." What do you find wrong with Firefox on Ubuntu exactly? I'm not challenging just interested. I use Win7/IE9 and Ubuntu1204/Firefox 19 most days.
- desireco42 14y ago
  Pages are loading more slowly, you can notice lagging of some actions. As a developer I am used to going fast through things, so when things are slow, it is noticable. Maybe it is due to pluggins, I don't know, I just know it is surprisingly slower. Under every other circumstance, I would prefer linux/ubuntu to any other machine. I was using linux for several years as primary dev machine. At the moment I am on a mac, even though I have both linux and win machines as well.