As a complete outsider and with my obvious bias as a Debian Developer: how can anybody call Ubuntu a “community distribution” when it's obvious that Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth can, and will, take decisions for reasons that are not made clear, and with only little or no community involvment?
This rethorical question refers, of course, to the current debate about purple vs. brown and the best position of the window close button (Bug report and LWN coverage.)
Conclusion? Let's be fair and call it a community support commercial distribution. Perhaps we should found a non-profit to award a (trademarked) “True Community Effort” label to operating system distributions where no commercial body has the final say?
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