And do they really have no clue on who is doing the work and why reducing income from Canonical is the wisest move ( by not using Ubuntu ( firefox/mozilla/google deal, amazon deal), by not buying CD or stuff on the store, etc ) ?
Even if most of the work come from Debian, and upstream from others company, switching to Mint and then pushing it is just wrong.

That was indeed something quite visible on my old os X laptop. I was not able to run openoffice and mail.app without lots of swap, while doing the same on Fedora was ok. Maybe now with 4 to 8 Gigabit of ram, this would be less visible, but as we are also pushing to less power consumption, I think that using less memory, and less cpu, fetching less things from disk is gonna requires some work in this direction.

It is more than people are not able to fork because that mean doing real work. It is much easier to send a email than to do real work. Look at MATE, everybody screamed, how many people working on the code ? 5, 10 ? Github list 15 people who can commit, and the graphs of commits look very low.

Heck, there is likely more people following Paris Hilton days and nights than people devoting time to make MATE work. Where did all those people who screamed gone ? Oh yes, doing nothing and just waiting as usual...

Because all those users that know better do not code anything, that's really too bad that the brightest minds of our century are also the ones that just do not code...

Maybe in a few years, people will be able to turn slashdot comments into C code, solving all the problem of those developpers not listening to the wisdom of the crowd ?

Have you read the link you posted ?
Especially that part :
""Further, recent research[12] has shown it is possible to detect the radiation corresponding to a keypress event from not only wireless (radio) keyboards, but also from traditional wired keyboards, and even from laptop keyboards.""

Having worked in server room, I must say that's a pretty stupid thing to do, there is noise, it is cold and you are most of the time on a crappy screen, using a less than good keyboard, no mouse.

So anything that could serve as a reason to ask to people to leave the server room is IMHO a good thing. Now, you can say " I cannot do install there, there is people around me". And either you get out, or the others get out, and in the end, that's it, few people saved from this pain.

On the other hand, he has a very narrow view of the whole topic. There is more than patents in the life, like getting the engineering, sales, etc of Motorola. The buildings and factory are likely something that cost money.

I think they just checked how much lack of security cost vs reducing the cost of security. IE, like a 1000$ system to protect a 10$ book is overkill, maybe that's the same kind of issue. If being a moron was the road to make money, I guess we would know by then.

Free hosting for starting ( there is a limit to sponsoring ), but then you can also take it and host it at home ( package for Fedora for now, supported version for RHEL 6, package for Centos 6 and the team would be quite happy to see it on others distributions too and would be quite receptive to feedback on that part ), you have ssh access so no lock-in of your data, and that's all standards stuff ( ie, it use setup.py for python, etc ).

And the code is on github, there is forums, etc, etc. But that's still a complex beast and that's moving a lot, so there is lots of outdated documentations.

That's free software, anything that would threaten any technology could just be incorporated without any issues in a distribution. Heck, you do not even need to contribute anything back, as Canonical have showed since years. Liberty to fork can go both way, you know.

In a software project, if you want to have growth, you need to have coders. So you have to manage coders more than code. In this case, that mean getting thing clear so future developers do not have a wrong view of the project later.

Maybe in compilers, kernel, or server software ? You know, all of those stuff that are used everywhere but working almost so well that no one care about them, listed on http://community.redhat.com/

take kvm for example, you likely depend on it dues to the use of vm and cloud, but you do not link the VM that host some blog to RH money, that paid kvm developpers. You send a email, but you do not think "maybe that's because people have been working on the kernel networking side, paid by a company". You do not think "maybe my bank is using RHEL and some security problem were prevented due to selinux or general hardening thanks to stuff paid by RH".

And the same goes to lots of others company too, Intel, IBM, Suse, etc. That's where the money goes. Or to sponsoring of Linux Foundation, Gnome foundation, Openstack, eclipse, etc. Or maybe to lawyers ( see rackspace vs some patent troll, see OIN ).

yeah, but hardly a crowd. If I could invent a world, i would say that shuttleworth is strawmaning.

He try to frame things in a binary fashion. Either you want to have easy stuff on the desktop and then you should not criticize him, or if you are against him, then are against having stuff for everybody. That's just a rhetorical tactic.

In practice, the issue is not that Ubuntu make things easy, because that's a good things to do, it is that Canonical is not respecting the community and do not discuss, because they think time to market ( or cadence, as they explain ) is more important. That's ok to believe that, but you have to be clear. removal of UDS 3 months before without discussing first, lack of respect for those that have bought plan ticket, and took care of accomodation. Not caring about community rules ( ie pushing changes after freeze ), that's the same, not caring about respecting rules for community. Using the Ubuntu name becuase they own the trademark. Not respecting the rules that community should follow.

Of course, Mark never say he is treating people unequally. Or never even try to defend that, he prefer to attack stawman, like the minority of people who think "ubuntu should be kept for elite". I never seen people like this, at most, I have seen people that complain we removed what they used, which is not exactly the same. So yeah, infuriating opponents by using lame tactics is the way he react to that. He did like this for the Amazon issue, he did that for Unity, etc.
The only thing I can say is that he is being too emotional about the project, thus making everybody realize this is *his* pet project, not the one of everybody.

I also think this could block lots of cookies used for SSO. Some people do actually like to be able to log using their twitter or github credentials.