He is and he has also repeatedly praised the Free Software philosophy and DOES support efforts regarding the same.
But when it comes to developing launchpad, he has chosen not to be with the Free Software community, even though he had the power to decide that.
as you quoted study mentioned - he is competing against Red Hat and Progeny and would like to get Launchpad's direction concentrated towards that. A bazaar model would not necessarily help Launchpad's direction. They could do it however by being ``benevolent dictators for life" like Linus, but it seems they would rather not.
Try searching for GNU on their website you DO get references to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Kubuntu GNU/Linux
It is by Ubuntu users and not the official stand of the project.
Not really. Please check it for your self.
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/LaunchpadRelease
So, I support those who do give Freedom primary importance.
i see. The Apache project does not give Freedom primary importance, does that mean you would refuse to use Apache? The Linux kernel project does not have Freedom on the top agenda, would that imply chucking the Linux kernel out?
Surely they are better than M$ (or so i believed before reading the blogs linked below, now I have serious doubts of their intentions),
i see, does that imply you would rather use windoze over Ubuntu? Or as per the blogs boycott Google as it is doing the same thing?
but for me those who value Freedom more than merits is important and Ubuntu isn't one of them yet (they have promised to have a completely Free distribution and I will support that wholeheartedly).
so is giving them the benefit of the doubt such a bad thing?
After the M$ Novell deal and a not fully ready GPL v3 yet, how many projects can guarantee that they will remain Free Software?
"Debian will remain 100% free"
are you saying that the M$ Novell will not affect Debian users and developers?
from Debian social contract with the Free Software Community http://www.us.debian.org/social_contract
that still does NOT protect anyone against the M$ Novell deal.
and others http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
by the way i don't see Debian there. i wonder why?
They do include proprietary drivers so new users can use the system, but other than that what other non free software are they packaging into Ubuntu?
There are Free drivers which work for most of the cases.
and when they don't ?
agreed.
It is my opinion (after all it is in my talk page, and other claims not mine are given proper references).
and i have mine.
Some more about launchpad and the dangers of a proprietary format: "What Canonical is trying to achieve here is to collect all the work that the free software have made and will made, and put them under their control. ............ , we all depend on Canonical to continue providing the service."
then don't take service from them.
Regards,
- vihan