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This is what's keeping me from buying into it, I just cannot in good conscience support Canonical's approach to Ubuntu. They're authoritarian and secretive in t
by ihsw 13y ago
This is what's keeping me from buying into it, I just cannot in good conscience support Canonical's approach to Ubuntu. They're authoritarian and secretive in their feature development, and that runs directly contrary to any notion of hacker ethics or FLOSS philosophy.
I used to subscribe to the linux sub-reddit but left because of all the Canonical apologists, "But they're nowhere near as bad as Microsoft/Apple/Google" and "They've got to make money somehow, what's wrong with anonymous search statistics being sent to Amazon?" etc etc.
- jdmichal 13y agoMan, they just keep adding letters to OSS...
- mpyne 13y agoThat's because FL (Free/Libre) is at least slightly different from the O (Open) part of the acronym.
- fader 13y agoAnd here all this time I thought that releasing your source code under the GPL qualified as "FLOSS philosophy". Seriously, working on something for a while until you get it into a state where you're happy releasing it to the world isn't an attack on Freedom. Especially when you GPL it once you do release it.