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Canonical - Re-inventing the Wheel - again
Authored by: Tim on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:56 AM EDT
Cynical old me thinks that this *just might* have something to do with
a Canonical business plan to monetize Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is an ancient african word, meaning "I can't configure Debian"

(Urban Dictionary)
:-)

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Canonical - Re-inventing the Wheel - again
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 04:05 AM EDT
When a company starts trying to reinvent the wheel, they're either going for
lock-in or are going to revolutionise the world.

Given Unity, I suspect the former.

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I see this as a positive
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 08:52 AM EDT

Darwinian competition and selection is driving Free and Open Source
Software development at rates the proprietary companies have no chance
of meeting. Having another package manager is a huge positive.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Thank You Gentoo!
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 11:56 AM EDT

I'm in the process of installing a new Gentoo. It finally has a use flag I can set for Mono:

    -mono
Perhaps Canonical will drop the idea of automatically forcing mono on people who don't want it. If they're going to reinvent the wheel, it'd be a nice change.

RAS

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