[dundee] GNOME Census - Who Writes GNOME & the start of a Flame War

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:26 +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:28:46 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:
> 
> > >   Greg should be experienced enough not to fall for the Marketing
> > > or media
> > tart ploy where organisations or individuals hype up their
> > importance, potential & capabilities. Look at  what some
> > proprietary software companies are telling you about their
> > products, do you believe what they are saying? Of course not, you
> > let it go in one ear and out of the other. They say that actions
> > speak louder than words, Red Hat has proved this in the REAL WORLD
> > regarding their profitability, Canonical has not yet done so and
> > until they can actually do this, ie. Scunthorpe winning a trophy,
> > their words are meaningless.
> 
> Unfortunately there will be a lot of people that do believe the hype
> and will gain misguided idea's and thoughts.

Also it's not just hype, they are actively doing some questionable
things.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543617/

Hmm, OK. So Ubuntu dev's can't solve this. 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588930

OK, lets set up a Fedora install, replicate it there and file a bug in
Red Hat's bugzilla. Hopefully they will fix it for us. (See comment #2).

Andrew