In defense of Ubuntu

August 20, 2008 (Wednesday) | Linux Ubuntu

Criticisms of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical, its corporate sponsor, are not hard to come by. Depending on who is speaking, Ubuntu and Canonical are guilty of profiting from the free software community without giving back to it, forking important projects or distributions, legitimizing the use of binary-only system components, and more. Of all of these gripes, it is the "contributing to the community" complaint which is heard most. Click below (subscribers only) for some musings from your editor on whether these criticisms are justified.