How long will Ubuntu have this user base if they keep pissing people off? Is it that hard to give the users who want the old shell in its usable form what they want?
Benevolent Dictator is what Bill Gates somewhat pretended to be for years.
Benevolent Dictator is what Bill Gates somewhat pretended to be for years.
He made his money selling SSL certificates in large quantities, I don't really think he is a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
He reminds me more of the type of entrepreneur who makes his money then decides to buy an English Football club and run it into the ground.
That's possibly unkind though, there was enough good work going into Ubuntu providing good support and sorting out allot of the common Linux Desktop issues to award him some credit, but I don't really see Ubuntu as any kind of creative juggernaut.
Maybe they are right, and the future of mass computing is in entertainment consumption and not productive work. Maybe the dream of a popular powerful OS is dead. Maybe it's time for power users to return to being a.nich
Shuttleworth started out the same way, except with Linux instead of DOS/Windows, and now he's insisting on making unpopular changes because he thinks he can see the future. Remember when Gates believed there was no future in the Internet?
Anyway, I'm rambling so I'll stop here.