> They are as much about promotion of Linux and FOSS as Apple is about promotion of BSD Unix.
strawman. I said popularity, not promotion.
> Canonical basically takes a bunch of community and FSF projects, patches them internally to their liking and ships with custom
just like most devs take a bunch of opensource projects, customize them, and ship them to their customers, only for money? that's the nature of the license - other people can use it these ways. it's annoying when bypassers are more concerned and noisy about this than said parties.
> Please stop spreading disinformation.
as I said, it's political. let's agree to disagree.
sent from my debian.
The word "Linux" doesn't even appear anywhere on their home page [1] or "About Ubuntu" page [2]. "GNU" probably never did and "free" appears only in the "cheaper than Windows" context.
Nowadays Canonical basically takes a bunch of community and FSF projects, patches them internally to their liking and ships with custom frontend without giving much credit to the original authors. "Developed by the amazing Ubuntu community of open source experts".
They are as much about promotion of Linux and FOSS as Apple is about promotion of BSD Unix. Please stop spreading disinformation.
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu