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Mark Shuttleworth Sends Out Apologies

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Published on 10 November 2013 12:12 PM EST
Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu
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Mark Shuttleworth has apologized on the behalf of his legal team for one of his employees asserting their trademark rights over a web-site that was critical of Ubuntu's privacy within Unity. At the same time he also apologized over his earlier "Open Source Tea Party" comments for anti-Mir users.

Mark apologized over a member of the Canonical legal team asserting their trademark rights over the Fix Ubuntu debacle with the web-site guiding users on how to disable remote searches with the Unity scopes on recent versions of Ubuntu Linux.

Mark then added, "On another, more personal note, I made a mistake myself when I used the label “open source tea party” to refer to the vocal non-technical critics of work that Canonical does. That was unnecessary and quite possibly equally offensive to members of the real Tea Party (hi there!) and the people with vocal non-technical criticism of work that Canonical does (hello there!)."

Mark Shuttleworth Sends Out Apologies


If you missed his original comments of going after those opposed to Mir, see the article from last month. Mark was challenged over the comments for a debate with KDE's Aaron Siego, but Mark hasn't responded to that offer, and some KDE developers continue to be disgruntled with Canonical.

Mark Shuttleworth Sends Out Apologies


Mark's apologies can be found via his blog.

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Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the web-site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience and being the largest web-site devoted to Linux hardware reviews, particularly for products relevant to Linux gamers and enthusiasts but also commonly reviewing servers/workstations and embedded Linux devices. Michael has written more than 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics hardware drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated testing software. He can be followed via and or contacted via .
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