The Shuttleworth/Canonical bashing is beyond tiresome at this stage.
Given like Canonical have actual experience getting their OS onto h/w vendors machines Gabe et. al. would be stupid not to at least contemplate partnering.
Also, Ubuntu is Debian. You've no problem with Debian succeeding, right?
Canonical can do what they like within the boundary of the GPL and other licences. Free software guarantees this freedom. I figure it's his money, he gets to decide. People hate on Canonical for not contributing to the Linux kernel. Then when they innovate build their own identity (you may gather I like Unity btw) they get criticized. For what?
Give it a rest already. the article was mainly about Valve and their Linux play anyway.
My main issue, one that is especially relevant to gaming, is with the shitstorm around Mir. I would be thrilled if Valve built off Debian, however I would be disappointed if their interpretation of 'open' was strictly literal (GPL etc) and did not take in to account the fact that cooperative and collaborative interactions with the larger linux community are equally (if not more) important. SteamOS is also not the only distro that valve is targeting, so going down a road that reduces support for other distros seems like a rather stupid idea to me (and yes, I am saying that Canonoical's current behavior is isolating their platform from other distros).
Given like Canonical have actual experience getting their OS onto h/w vendors machines Gabe et. al. would be stupid not to at least contemplate partnering.
Also, Ubuntu is Debian. You've no problem with Debian succeeding, right?
Canonical can do what they like within the boundary of the GPL and other licences. Free software guarantees this freedom. I figure it's his money, he gets to decide. People hate on Canonical for not contributing to the Linux kernel. Then when they innovate build their own identity (you may gather I like Unity btw) they get criticized. For what?
Give it a rest already. the article was mainly about Valve and their Linux play anyway.
edit: without -> within >.<