By: Larry

Steven: You’re right, and I think — at least I hope — they realized this when unleashing the shopping lens onto the public. But there’s no putting that toothpaste back in the tube. As an aside, their PR problem isn’t so much that that they are trying to spin this, but they’re doing such a bad job across the board. I don’t know if this is handed down, like just about everything else, from the throne of The Mark, or whether Canonical’s PR department just, well, sucks. Also, I don’t understand why the higher-ups (that would include Jono) at Ubuntu/Canonical don’t understand the simple concept that criticism isn’t necessarily opposition. When people are critical of Ubuntu/Canonical, they go completely batshit crazy, as if they’re expected to be above reproach or everything they’re doing is God’s gift to FOSS.