From: Albert.Invalid@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/01/2023 18:10, TheAppleFox wrote:   
   > On Sun Jan 1 23:18:35 2023 Saptarshi Roy  wrote:   
   >> Canonical as the publisher of Ubuntu has every right to offer snaps out   
   >> of the box. Personal preferences don't matter as far as enterprise   
   >> oriented distributions like RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu are concerned.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> S. Roy   
   > Yes, but you know what, dissatisfied users have the right to go and do   
   something else.   
   >   
   > I suspect something like "Freebuntu" or "Openbuntu" or "Librebuntu" will   
   spring up from the dissatisfied users creating a fork.   
      
   But the impact on Canonical's business model won't see any significant   
   impact because Linux distros have come and gone but Canonical is still here.   
      
   Ubuntu is not an open source project. I don't know what does this mean:   
   "open source from cloud to desktop and devices". The back-end is open   
   source but the UI is very tightly controlled. Have you seen the source   
   code of the UI anywhere?   
      
   As far as I can see Ubuntu is supported by most Cloud platform but you   
   will be hard pressed to find Mint anywhere on the major cloud suppliers   
   like Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle etc etc. Ubuntu is a serious product   
   built on the premise that it should be self financing while most distros   
   depend on volunteers and they can come and go and some may even fall out   
   because of disagreements about something. Ubuntu employs people so they   
   will work to be paid or simply move on and do something else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)