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On 07/26/2012 04:47 AM, Brad Alexander wrote:
Concur. And if I am honest, I could not be bothered to look up the license. Like you, I avoid Ubuntu like the plague. I went back to dumped Ubuntu and went back to Debian around Gutsy. Between the broken encryption in the installer and the beginnings of what I saw as the writing on the wall (which has borne out over the years), I'm much happier with pure Debian.
I was doing Sarge back in the day when I tried Ubuntu 6.10. I still have the CD I'd burned. I used it for about 90 days and went back when Etch came out. I may have already mentioned I left Debian for Arch when I discovered GFDL packages in non-free. I did Arch and from scratch for awhile, then Gentoo and from scratch after that.
Unity is GPLv3, btw. I suppose after several years of development it might reach a point where it could be ported around without so much effort. If Mr. Morrison is correct when he says Unity requires excessive low level patching (and I have no reason to think otherwise), I imagine its development strategy will largely be Canonical's burden. One might think that's what they wanted all along.