Canonical Loses Work From Top Compiz Contributor

[e8hffff]

I really hope Canonical fails really fast with their Mir stuff and their approach to the community.

They take so much, they give so little.

You can see you're from another Distro trying to cause trouble.

[e8hffff]

He's on his monthly?


Talk about whiners. If you patch Compiz then you're doing it for the Users, not Canonical, since they give away the OS for free. Just patch what you want to do and what you don't then don't. There's no pressure, other than you will miss being apart of the history of Linux and Ubuntu.

[jayrulez]

I really hope Canonical fails really fast with their Mir stuff and their approach to the community.

They take so much, they give so little.

I thought everything they take gets released for everyone to use? Correct me if I'm wrong

[talvik]

His compiz stuff is all included in the 0.9.9 development. What he means is it would have gone to waste if Ubuntu 13.04 didn't actually release, which it will.

"I was basically going to throw away 4 months of hard work because Ubuntu wasn?t going to take my patches because they don?t want to take community patches on compiz anymore."

It quite hard to undestand what he meant.

"because they don?t want to take community patches on compiz anymore." They aren't taking community patches anymore

"because they woudn't take community patches on compiz anymore." They won't take patches if 13.04 isn't released

[d2kx]

His compiz stuff is all included in the 0.9.9 development. What he means is it would have gone to waste if Ubuntu 13.04 didn't actually release, which it will.

[newwen]

I really hope Canonical fails really fast with their Mir stuff and their approach to the community.

They take so much, they give so little.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Loses Work From Top Compiz Contributor

Following a tough week for Canonical with controversies surrounding the Mir Display Server and uncertainties about whether Ubuntu 13.04 would be released or turned into a rolling release model, Sam Spilsbury one of the lead Compiz developers and former Canonical employees, had some harsh words for the Ubuntu backer...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMyMTc