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Unity is primarily available on Ubuntu. Now Canonical has said goodbye to all derivatives to welcome Mir. You are obviously going to make an argument that it's

Unity is primarily available on Ubuntu. Now Canonical has said goodbye to all derivatives to welcome Mir. You are obviously going to make an argument that it's available for free do what you want to do with it - we don't support it, we don't break your work. This is a little dishonest. You have to do what you have to do, I am not judging.

slgeorge 13y ago
I seem not to need an argument since you're making one for me - though you do seem to questioning my honesty which is a bit mean :-( Nonetheless, you're right that I'm going to say that it's simply a fact that each Linux distribution develops software and puts in resources into areas that it believes fit the needs of its users. This is good, and the point of Free Software is we can all work together and collaborate without having the same goals. Let me give you some examples of this: 1. RPM - originated in RedHat, developed by SUSE 2. Real time Linux kernel patches - written by SUSE, expanded by Red Hat 3. GNOME - significant early RH (and Ximian) project, used by lots of people Unity was created by Canonical - it's available for free and any distribution can use it. Please cite an example of where another distribution could not get the code and use it - otherwise you're just blowing smoke. Factually, Canonical has not said 'goodbye' to derivatives. If you're a derivative you get free use of Ubuntu resources (build machines don't run on air by the way) and you follow the community governance model. It's up to each derivative what software it uses - that's the point - it allows each 'sub-community' to work on solutions that it cares about.
- donniezazen 13y ago
  Irrespective of what we both think, I didn't call you, or intended for that matter, dishonest. KDE, Gnome, XFCE4, LXDE, etc. are available on all distributions but Unity is only available on Ubuntu. There is definitely something fishy here.

slgeorge 13y ago

I seem not to need an argument since you're making one for me - though you do seem to questioning my honesty which is a bit mean :-( Nonetheless, you're right that I'm going to say that it's simply a fact that each Linux distribution develops software and puts in resources into areas that it believes fit the needs of its users. This is good, and the point of Free Software is we can all work together and collaborate without having the same goals. Let me give you some examples of this: 1. RPM - originated in RedHat, developed by SUSE 2. Real time Linux kernel patches - written by SUSE, expanded by Red Hat 3. GNOME - significant early RH (and Ximian) project, used by lots of people Unity was created by Canonical - it's available for free and any distribution can use it. Please cite an example of where another distribution could not get the code and use it - otherwise you're just blowing smoke. Factually, Canonical has not said 'goodbye' to derivatives. If you're a derivative you get free use of Ubuntu resources (build machines don't run on air by the way) and you follow the community governance model. It's up to each derivative what software it uses - that's the point - it allows each 'sub-community' to work on solutions that it cares about.

donniezazen 13y ago
Irrespective of what we both think, I didn't call you, or intended for that matter, dishonest. KDE, Gnome, XFCE4, LXDE, etc. are available on all distributions but Unity is only available on Ubuntu. There is definitely something fishy here.