Really appreciate posts like these. I think this post specificaly might have saved me from embarking on a colossal time-sink application process.
Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
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Read his words.
"I can’t support anyone who is this much of an asshole." And so I ask again: He's an asshole because he wants to work with extraordinary people and made fun of george W bush? see, I added the W. now answer.
Now answer? Are you fucking kidding me? You think I’m going to follow your orders? Are you really stupid or do you just have poor social skills?
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It’s time for me to leave Ubuntu behind for good. I can’t support anyone who is this much of an asshole.
Wait till you hear how much of an asshole RMS and Linus (to degree) are. What's next on your trip, go full time on Microsoft?
Why are you this obsessed with defending this particular dude??
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I think you shouldn't undersell the impact of Ubuntu shipping with binaries/installers for proprietary drivers, media codecs and things like adobe flash. These were easy enough to install on other distros, but for a noob user Ubuntu was more streamlined. Of course this wasn't a technical innovation, it was just an exercise in pragmatic legal risk-taking.
No one's underselling this, you're overselling this. Jockey (their proprietary software installer) didn't become a thing in Ubuntu until their 6.10-7.04 releases. 2-2.5 years after the first version. SuSE, Mandrake and other distributions were shipping proprietary software in their base installs in 2003-ish; four years before Ubuntu did. There's no doubt that Fedora and Debian's hard stance on Free Software turned pe…
I don't think Ubuntu was particularly relevant for the first few releases. Ubuntu became a trendy sensation when they started doing these things.
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More like investors... or subscription customers. But not employees.
I think your metaphor is going in the wrong direction! Customers and investors have a choice. We pay the government or we get locked in a box we helped pay for (-:
Analogy still holds. Democracy ostensibly allows choice. If you have no choice, it’s no different than a monopoly.
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What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way I'm not sure you remember what the Linux landscape looked like when Ubuntu was first released, but it was a pretty huge deal at the time. So much more hardware and software (esp. media playback) worked out of the box than any other distro at the time. USB and wireless networking just worked. The desktop they provided was was really nice and well configured…
> So much more hardware and software (esp. media playback) worked out of the box than any other distro at the time SuSE and other mainstream distros worked "out-of-the box" just as well, or better, than the early Ubuntu versions. Fedora, Debian, etc didn't not work because they couldn't, but they were trying to make a point about free software and what that meant, so they took a strict stance on included licensed cod…
It was 2 minutes of adding RPMForge to your repos to fix, however.
From a technical users' perspective, super easy...if you already knew what to do, or what to search for to figure out what to do.
The point was that with Ubuntu, you didn't even need to do that, so non-technical users could use it without hassle, and this was the entire point of Ubuntu.
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Honest question why?
It’s based upon a few things. Ubuntu has been underwhelming as of late. It’s fine, just underwhelming. Sometimes software becomes underwhelming as it matures but in this case, the hiring process seems designed to ship underwhelming software. Then there is the particular issue. That kind of thinking/communication style doesn’t make me feel comfortable with Ubuntu (or any project he would have a leadership role in). An…
Why is filtering applicants for people who accomplished at least something in any area of life (not even specifically software) being a jerk ?
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Shuttleworth is a very hands-on manager, which is both a blessing, if you like his style, or a curse, if you don't.
That sounds like a euphemism for "micromanager".
Not really. A micromanager is more consistent in their interventions. With him it was much more distributed and somewhat random.
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Unless, of course, you work for that government. Kind of the same one that put people on the Moon, made the atomic bomb, invented the internet, and other things less extraordinary than repackaging Debian ;-) I have talked to him a couple times while working for Canonical and, while I knew his reputation of being a very Steve Jobs person, he was never an asshole with me. And the CEO was a real sweetheart. I'd think tw…
They also interned Japanese-Americans, caused the Arab Spring/Syrian Civil War, made the atomic bomb (oh, you mentioned that one!), ran numerous undisclosed human experimentation projects, imposed multiple central banking systems on the United States, caused the mortgage crisis, and gave China most favoured nation status.
You still can't really say the US government doesn't do things that are deeply impactful, many times very negatively impactful.
The US government serves the US's interests. I have no illusions as to how well it behaves towards other countries.