Among other things? They have a restrictive licensing, they’re a for-profit company, and though it’s now disabled by default (maybe, see for profit company bit,) they got into cahoots with Amazon for Spyware
They’ve always skeeved me out with their MS-like approach to UI.
It was a bit weasel-y of debian, but like, I understand branding issues being “important”; the issue with Ubuntu and branding is you can’t do that. You have to get approval to repackage/brand Ubuntu.
Just an interesting thing in the community, how everything canonical does is immediately hate mongered by all relevant Linux media and Red Hat is given free reign
So. Fun story. My dad is a Unix SysOps guy. I grew up on Red Hat. he went out to REHL’s HQ in Raleigh, NC, to get pitched their enterprise services for his org. (they were soliciting bids from several places,). In any case, he came back with, for him, a new hostility towards red hat. (“I regret setting you up with red hat…” lots of other comments that could be described as “fuck them”, he’s far less crude than I am.)
the most hilarious part is the some of the swag was this nasty-ass 1 pound chocolate bar that they made a big deal out of. he put it out at his office and not even the office grazers that would eat 3-week old pizza left in the fridge would touch it.
What’s wrong with Canonical?
Among other things? They have a restrictive licensing, they’re a for-profit company, and though it’s now disabled by default (maybe, see for profit company bit,) they got into cahoots with Amazon for Spyware
They’ve always skeeved me out with their MS-like approach to UI.
Thanks for that link and on the way there reminding me of the Firefox versus Debian conflict over branding :)
It was a bit weasel-y of debian, but like, I understand branding issues being “important”; the issue with Ubuntu and branding is you can’t do that. You have to get approval to repackage/brand Ubuntu.
What’s wrong by a for profit company? Theoretically that is the best option
Same as IBM, but everyone rushes to suck their dick when they’re not even much useful for the ecosystem anyways
What makes you think I’m fond of IBM? What about IBM being creepy makes Canonical not creepy?
Just an interesting thing in the community, how everything canonical does is immediately hate mongered by all relevant Linux media and Red Hat is given free reign
LOL.
So. Fun story. My dad is a Unix SysOps guy. I grew up on Red Hat. he went out to REHL’s HQ in Raleigh, NC, to get pitched their enterprise services for his org. (they were soliciting bids from several places,). In any case, he came back with, for him, a new hostility towards red hat. (“I regret setting you up with red hat…” lots of other comments that could be described as “fuck them”, he’s far less crude than I am.)
the most hilarious part is the some of the swag was this nasty-ass 1 pound chocolate bar that they made a big deal out of. he put it out at his office and not even the office grazers that would eat 3-week old pizza left in the fridge would touch it.
RH has fallen from grace.
fuck red hat