[sf-lug] Ubuntu 18.04 to have 10 year support span

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at SDF.ORG):

> Am wondering if as an intended|unintended by-product of Canonical's
> IPO, Shuttleworth would ever revert to calling Free software zealots
> "antisocial muppets who love to hate", similar to what he did
> ~1.5yrs ago at [6] ??
[...]
> [6]https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntus-shuttleworth-free-software-zealots-are-antisocial-muppets-who-love-to-hate/

Apparently this was a 2013 thing where he was angry about lack of
community love for Canonical, Ltd's Mir display server, later
drastically cut back around the time they abandoned the equally unloved
Unity DE.  

The name-calling and impugning critics' motives neatly sidesteps any
question about whether there might have been good reason to be
unenthusiastic about Mir, and it's not hard to find some -- just not
ever admitted by Mr. Shuttleworth.  

Canonical not only specified a selection of licence that was peculiar on
its face in the context of the intended markets (including embedded) but
also attempted to pull the same proprietary-advantage trick they've
tried with several other projects:  They accept third-party code
contributions only with assignment of copyright ownership over the
contributed code.  This was, as it was in all the other examples of
this ploy, deceptively termed a 'Contributor License Agreement'.  No,
Mr. Shuttleworth, as you are well aware, that isn't a licence grant, but
rather a signover of ownership.

And there's only one real underlying reason for requiring such a
signover:  Canonical wants to have the freedom to issue other code
instances, including third-party open source contributions, under other
terms entirely, such as proprietary ones for money.  So:  It's open
source for thee, but not for me.  (When cornered on
these matters on numerous past occasions, Shuttleworth pivots his
argument to admit the scheme for proprietary advantage at the expense of
the community, but then tries to justify this by claiming Canonical is
so incredibly important and virtuous a company that it deserves special
proprietary favours not available to others.  I kid you not.)

And all of this, Shuttleworth in the cited context (Mir) reduces to 
a simple matter of a Mir hate-fest imposed by free-software antisocial
muppets.

Yeah, ok, Mark.  Now, run off to your tax haven and have a good sob.

/me does eye-roll.