And, Yawn! Yes, yes, yes, we know that Shuttleworth wouldn’t be bankrolling Ubuntu unless there was a return on his investment. Good for him. I hope Canonical makes a bundle supporting Ubuntu. I just want so much for him to be Mr Honest John, but sometimes, instead he comes across as Mr Slippery Simon. Granted it must be a difficult path to steer, keeping the proprietary side functional and heading for profit, while at the same time keeping clear water between it and the ‘free’ Ubuntu.

If Ubunut One ever gets into Debian we’ll know he’s up to no good for sure

You want the source to Ubuntu One? Go to w ww.ifolder.org . It does exactly the same thing.
Oh I forgot, you are boycotting Novell, therefore you are not interested in a Novell started/backed project. Fundamentalists are sad, angry, lonely and pathetic.

(edit: ifolder.org is the wrong domain, full of ads)

I don’t understand your whole fuss since I was replying to “No one ripped off Sourceforge and created a new one. That is my point.”. They did create a new one, and many.

Cheers though, and enjoy the fact that while many users know that Webkit powers Google Chrome and Safari, very few know where it actually comes from.

You made nice points, so your last sentence saddens me a bit.

You probably have some axe to grind, but your view of OSS is myopic and desktop-oriented. Take a look at these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server#History_and_name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgresql#History

Those links alone should convince you, but in case they don’t, WebKit derives from KHTML, a KDE project and is arguably better than Gecko (though Mozilla IS a non-profit org at this point). Webkit is currently used in Safari and Chrome.

Of course there’s always some connection to money somewhere, but commercialization or dual-license isn’t the only way to go, and the biggest names aren’t tied to any one company. OO.o, in fact, is often criticized for it’s strong tie to Sun.

Enjoy your inevitable rebuttal. I’m done.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge_Enterprise_Edition for the history.

Same thing will be with Launchpad – more pain for the user for nothing. And is there a single, absolutely non-commercial and successful OSS project out there? No. All of them involve money in some form or another (firefox via mozilla, ooo via sun, and etc.). Hello, reality.

It’s nicer . And it allows or should allow, decentralized bugtracking collaboration.
That would mean that everyone could have his own bugtracker and make it share bugs and stuff with the main Launchpad.

I see that as something that would encourage replication, but in no way would diminuish the importance of the main launchpad.

I really hope Canonical will have the guts to release it fully and allow such decentralized system to born. I’d like Gnome people to adopt it, for example.