I don't get the Unity hate. Sure, it's nowhere near as polished as the traditional Gnome desktop, but everything cool and new started out as something crappy and new. If you don't like watching the sausage get made, wait for the LTS releases. Or just turn Unity off, the option's still there.
I have a lot of time for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu crew. Here's the rest of the "if you don't like it, don't use it" quote mentioned in the article: "If there is selfishness here, it's selfishness on the part of people who DEMAND attention and offer no constructive solution. Nobody has a right to expect someone else to devote their time to a mission in which they have no interest."
"Devote their time to a mission" - isn't that a great description of Open Source at it's best? Not playing with a weekend project, trying to impress pundits, or making a super friendly don't-offend-anyone party. A mission that people devote their time to.
Will it work? I have no idea, but I hope so. Ubuntu didn't become the most popular distro by having the best wallpaper. They've been making hard decisions and pissing people off since 2004. To anyone who considers Unity a death knell, I'd ask you to estimate how many projects are killed by innovating too much when people want stability, and compare it to how many projects die a slow, apathetic death because they've been standing still while the rest of the world moves on.
I have a lot of time for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu crew. Here's the rest of the "if you don't like it, don't use it" quote mentioned in the article: "If there is selfishness here, it's selfishness on the part of people who DEMAND attention and offer no constructive solution. Nobody has a right to expect someone else to devote their time to a mission in which they have no interest."
"Devote their time to a mission" - isn't that a great description of Open Source at it's best? Not playing with a weekend project, trying to impress pundits, or making a super friendly don't-offend-anyone party. A mission that people devote their time to.
Will it work? I have no idea, but I hope so. Ubuntu didn't become the most popular distro by having the best wallpaper. They've been making hard decisions and pissing people off since 2004. To anyone who considers Unity a death knell, I'd ask you to estimate how many projects are killed by innovating too much when people want stability, and compare it to how many projects die a slow, apathetic death because they've been standing still while the rest of the world moves on.