On 17/10/11 13:00, James Freer wrote:
What i meant but perhaps didn't put very well is that i feel it's a step too far too quickly. ubuntu is still making a huge loss per year i gather - they are trying to be market leaders with unity and it's not working. How much longer will Mr Shuttleworth support the loss (i'd have thought he was beginning to run short)?
The truth is that it seems this is how Canonical try to drive things forward...make them default across a huge userbase and the problems have to get fixed...nobody wants to work on a project that nobody is using so by making technology mainstream it gets the focus it needs to flourish.
Pretty much every time they have added a major technology it has followed this roadmap of being available on a release very early in it's development cycle (compiz, Pulse, the self developed Upstart etc and now the self developed Unity) then literally the next release has it as default and is problem ridden at first but because it is the default bugs get filed and hopefully fixed. I have no doubt the same will happen with Unity.