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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:32:16AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
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> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote:
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> > | How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about
> > | Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was
> > | done to begin with, nothing about who works or doesn't work there.
> >
> > That, sir, would be entirely the fault of yourself.  It's three clicks
> > from the front page of canonical.com what the goals of Ubuntu is.
> > It's well documented on the www.ubuntu.com pages.  About who works or
> > doesn't work there, well, though it's not secret, it's not like the
> > company roster is publically available.  A lot of the names should be
> > easy to pick out, though.
> 
> For $DEITY's sake. Will you please understand that the Ubuntu folks
> totally failed to inform their fellows about what was going on ? And

Why should they have?  Considering the amount of crap that gets piled on
them now, I think their decision not to send constant "so-and-so just went
to the toilet" messages to d-d-a was pretty reasonable.

> I think we deserved a better explanation.

I think we all deserved a pony.

> > I don't think accusing the Ubuntu developers of hiding information is
> 
> At the time of no-name-yet, they *were* hiding information.

Like what?  The fact that one of them turned up in the office one day with a
hangover?  That's not hiding, that's just not telling you something.  And
no, you do not have a right to know *anything* about Ubuntu, so it's
difficult to make charges of information hiding stick.

- Matt

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