[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“When Ubuntu first appeared, the free and open source
software (FOSS) community was delighted. Suddenly, here was a
distribution with the definite goal of usability, headed by a
former space tourist who not only understood computer programming
but had the money to throw at problems.“The only objections were that Ubuntu was ripping off Debian,
the source of most of its packages. For everyone else, Ubuntu and
its parent company Canonical seemed everything FOSS had been
waiting for.“Now, in 2011, that honeymoon is long past. Although Ubuntu
remains the dominant distro, criticisms of its relationship with
the rest of FOSS seem to be coming every other month. What
happened?”