Ubuntu is Going the Way of Microsoft
Canonical has lost my confidence in the way they tried to force Unity down my throat rather than offering it as an optional alternative- Redmond-style. I feel the same about gnome.org and Gnome3. In the real world, once an organization loses the confidence of their clients, it is very, very hard to regain it...
Actually, the distro I use is CAELinux, based on Ubuntu 10.04. The CAELinux team is very good at putting together an integrated package with the applications that are critical to me. I will stick with what I have, at least until CAELinux comes up with a viable reason for an upgrade. I do not know what the plans of CAELinux are, whether they are going to stay with Ubuntu in the future and adapt to a different user interface, or switch to a base system with a saner approach to marketing. I will follow their lead, because they have demonstrated excellent capabilities in putting together a system that just works. I trust them. I no longer trust Canonical.
