On 25 July 2012 05:33, Bryan Baldwin <bryan@...> wrote:
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> On 07/25/2012 12:59 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
>> unlike Mate and Cinnamon (and the other desktops available for
>> Linux), Unity has never been made available to other distros
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> Well, if Unity is under a free software license, I can't agree. Just
> because no one other then Canonical sees any value in supporting it
> doesn't make it wrong.
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> If Unity has a non-free license, then I agree with you.
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being open source and being a good project are very different. For
example when red hat has to release their kernel patches they just
send a giant crappy tarball out and say "here we released it". Ubuntu
is the same way. Unity does not work well with others, doesnt work on
most distros, has weird patches required for low level libraries, is
rather hackey... the source is available, but it doesnt mean its
usable

just because its open source doesnt mean its a good project

Calvin