Comments on: Ubuntu Ichiban

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:59:50 +0000

This is exactly what you *always* get when you flirt with the GNU/FSF zealots and business at the same time.

Not a big deal. Like you said, let’s move on.

By: Joshua Blount

Joshua Blount — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:13:03 +0000

Just dropping a note about the price point:

It’s much harder to increase the price than decrease it, and as has been said before, Ubuntu One is going to have more feature than the file syncing service currently available.

Thanks!

By: Matthew East

Matthew East — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:44:29 +0000

If people have an opinion about it, I think they are entitled to express that opinion on their blog. That’s kinda what blogs are about. Planet Ubuntu isn’t made for working

By: nixternal

nixternal — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:39:59 +0000

OK, the destructive part was a bit harsh, but interruptive and annoying it is. Take it to a mailing list where it can all be sorted, archived and easy to look at. Blogging it is silly and annoying, especially when you try to track it via the Planet, because sometime tomorrow half of them will be lost anyways. Everyone is beating the same damn dead horse, over and over again. If they want to beat that horse, take it elsewhere, a place that removes the litter from the planet. I can’t believe the planet police aren’t out in droves yet, wondering when they will learn about Ubuntu development again. Shoot, if you want to do a political post, do it right now, it might not get noticed. The Ubuntu One project has a mailing list, why aren’t people expressing their stuff there? Why keep putting it into the blogosphere. I can understand an update or two from the mailing list to the planet, but everyone and their mother posting about the same damn thing. Reminds me of release day, when everyone says “Hey look, Ubuntu x.x is released, get it now.”

I am just tired and grumpy, maybe my age is catching up to me.

By: Matthew East

Matthew East — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:32:27 +0000

I disagree with you when you say:

All of this complaining is destructive, interruptive, and really annoying

I think people are perfectly entitled to express their opinion about any issue that arises in the Ubuntu community. I think you’ve made it clear in the comments to your post that you understand the bug report filed by Tony, and you’re 50/50 yourself on whether the name is appropriate (which is what people are complaining about). On that basis, it must at least be recognised that there is an issue to discuss here, and that people should be able to express their opinion on the issue.
That’s not destructive, it’s what our community is all about.

By: nixternal

nixternal — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:43:10 +0000

OK, I just found this out. They are not violating their trademark, and actually they need to trademark this if they really want to keep the name. Because the use of Ubuntu One is not defined in the trademark owned by Canonical, then Ubuntu One in itself is not covered. So there is no trademark issue, unless one of you go and file for the trademark first :p

As for the philosophy part, I am still 50/50 on. It has been aparent that over the years Ubuntu has wanted to seperate itself from any type of philosophy that may link them to the FSF. For instance, we switched from the GFDL on all documentation, the wikis ditched GFDL, god forbid you use Ubuntu GNU/Linux in any documentation, publication, or publicity/promo stuff.