Re:This last month has made me question... (Score 1)

Very well written. Thanks for taking the time to do so. That being said what are the prospects for improvement? The bad part of free is you get what you pay for. The bad part of not free is you often don't get what you pay for there either. So free may be better. We need to improve the model for OSS so that improvements can be somehow forced. It is not a business model in that there seem to be no paying customers to keep around. Something other than the profit motive must prevail. I do not have the answer(s) but enjoy watching things unfold. I too am considering trying a different linux distribution other than Ubuntu at least to become better informed. Others here have been mentioning doing the same sort of thing.