Funniest comment during Open Week so far comes from today’s Q+A session with Mark Shuttleworth:
17:24 jcastro [nixternal] jcastro: QUESTION: Do you think Kubuntu is a blue headed step child that every seems to think it is? If not, can you put the rumours to rest, with possibly a song or a lovely poem letting everyone know just how much you really love us over in the Kubuntu community?
17:24 sabdfl oh dea
17:24 sabdfl r
17:24 sabdfl this question makes me rather sad, because i don’t know what else i could do
17:25 sabdfl i worked out the other day that i personally spend more than $2m a year supporting Kubuntu and KDE
17:25 sabdfl and yet those communities think it’s cool to act unloved
17:25 sabdfl i think the Kubuntu community’s work is amazing, and they should be proud of it
17:25 sabdfl there’s no need to make out like it’s against the forces of corporate indifference
17:26 sabdfl when in fact I and many others bend a long way to make it possible
17:26 sabdfl that’s about enough on the subject
17:26 sabdfl next?
As usual, nixternal trying to cause a ruckus! 
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I wasn’t actually trying to cause a ruckus, I really wanted to see Mark come up with a quick song or poem. I know that Mark has supported Kubuntu, but for some reason others don’t think he has, or expect him to push it the way Canonical does Ubuntu. I am totally fine with Kubuntu being more of a community developed distro than have a bunch of corporate stiffs making decisions on its development. I actually prefer this.
Obviously my question was taken out of context and seemingly upset people. I am glad you found the humor in it, as did some other people. The reaction I got was upsetting, and I was hoping people knew me a bit better than someone trying to be an asshole during OpenWeek. Don’t know what’s next on my plate now.
nixternal,
I was trying to inject some humor into the whole Canonical/Kubuntu discussion myself. Apparently, major FAIL on my part.
Would have hoped the emoticon would have signalled that I was joking, again FAIL.
People tend to get their panties in a wad way too easily.
You are not kidding. How could they not see I was having fun with it, or that you were having fun right along? It was very uptight in there today, and I have to say I didn’t like it one bit, didn’t feel all ‘community’ to me, felt like a waiting room filled with cheap cigarette smoke and a bunch of people having their life handed to them
It does seem like nixternal is giving SABDFL a chance to dispel the rumors. If this got taken as nixternal dissing Mark’s support of KDE/Kubuntu, I don’t see it.
> this question makes me rather sad,
> because i don’t know what else i could do
Taking a look here:
http://apachelog.blogspot.com/2009/04/facts-about-rosetta-and-kubuntu-l10n.html
probably would be a good starting point…
And in detail, where does he spends these $2m? I’m just curious… I don’t think J.Riddell sucks THAT much! (sucks intended as costs, obviously)
Well … where on Earth does it all go? I doubt he’s paying JRiddell that much – who for years and up until quite recently was the only person paid to work on Kubuntu. Is he counting ShipIt, or infrastructure that’s shared with Ubuntu, or … ?
Probably he counts money spend on KDE
not only kubuntu
What he need to do is to pay more attention instead of pay more money.
I’m sure JR is running a flawless Kubuntu on his own computer.
But if (I suppose) only 20% of kubuntu users got a flawless kubuntu out of box, while (I suppose) 80% of ubuntu users got a flawless ubuntu out of box, it would always seem that kubuntu being a step-child.
Please pay more attention and quality test both Kubuntu and Ubuntu equally for every new feature introduced to ubuntu. Thanks.
“Probably he counts money spend on KDE
not only kubuntu”
But what money? Where is this mysterious flow of funds from Mark to KDE, because I can’t trace it, barring the one-off donation required to be a patron of KDE?
The money he spends includes:
1) Paying JR
2) There are 2 new devs at Canonical who will be working on KDE
3) He sponsors Akademy
4) He is a Patron of KDE, meaning he donates at least €5000 – €10000 per year
Kubuntu CDs.
They’ve been very good about getting them to us for booths at shows and demos in the USA. In the past, the few leftovers have gone to coffee shops and Mexico.
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