Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft?

“Whoah! Hold on everyone. Let me don my asbestos suit first will
you.

“Thanks.

“Right then. I have been thinking about this post for some time
and I think the time is probably right for pressing the old
“publish” button.

“I am not trying to incite riots or wars in the halls of
residence or corridors of power but Canonical/Ubuntu is starting to
catch more “bad karma” than is healthy for it IMHO.

“Let’s start with Mono. Yep. It’s been a prickly
thorn for many and the concerns expressed are not going away.
There’s no point in raking over the old ground; it is just
one of the bad-karma attractants in a growing list. Then we have
Ubuntu One. Proprietary, closed, caused much debate and friction
when announced and now the possibility of a Windows version
too.

“Next comes dumping GIMP, OOo and other much-loved applications
from the default installation of versions of the forthcoming
distribution.”

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