I found myself agreeing with a lot of the sentiment expressed in Mark's post but ultimately, I lack faith that Shuttleworth and Canonical have what it takes to pull off the stated goal of creating "an experience that could challenge the existing proprietary leaders." For example, I don't find Unity to be better in any meaningful sense than the "community-driven" GNOME 3. Canonical has come up with some interesting ideas, especially with the HUD menu system, but I just haven't seen real progress towards building the kind of consistent user experience I can find on Android, Windows and OS X.
I'd love for them to succeed, but every passing day I'm looking more to Android as the future of quasi-open Linuxes.
I'd love for them to succeed, but every passing day I'm looking more to Android as the future of quasi-open Linuxes.