[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu: the Microsoft of open source?

[Jacob Appelbaum]

mendozae at sonoma.edu wrote:
> I read someone post an accusation that Ubuntu has become the Microsoft of
> the open source community because of its popularity and widespread use.
> 
> I felt that this was unfair because, among other good reasons, people in
> the open source community will always have a choice. At least for now,
> people have chosen Ubuntu because it has earned it through quality and NOT
> through monopoly and manipulation like Microcrap.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

I think most of the criticism of Ubuntu derives from it being a for
profit fork of Debian. Furthermore, it isn't DFSG "free" and this upsets
many people in the Free software / Open source communities.

That said, anyone posting such an accusation sounds like they're trolling.

-jake