Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?
How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?
Sorry, but I believe the blog post author’s statements regarding “statistics” are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.
The “AI” part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:
AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.
Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew…
As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.
# Fun Is Social
My first real experience of OSS was with a successful, established project whose culture I could observe. It was KDE, the community behind a desktop environment for Linux…
Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships…
Canonical’s VP of Engineering says Ubuntu’s user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux is growing significantly faster than its native desktop user base, and he expects WSL to overtake native Ubuntu installations within months
And there it is, right in the opening sentence: the bullshit trying to make windows look good somehow. Feels like entrapment. like how Google‘s AI answers are stealing actual click-throughs for the websites that are generating the answers people are really looking for.
Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?
How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?
Sorry, but I believe the blog post author’s statements regarding “statistics” are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.
The “AI” part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:
Ew, you made me actually read the article.
And there it is, right in the opening sentence: the bullshit trying to make windows look good somehow. Feels like entrapment. like how Google‘s AI answers are stealing actual click-throughs for the websites that are generating the answers people are really looking for.
Well money would be a huge motivator on its own. Unless his idea of motivation is to bring out the whips…