@Mark Shuttleworth, @MarkShuttleworth, #MarkShuttleworth, sabdfl, mark@peregrine, mark@mark-XPS-15, however else I may get your attention sir :)
Dear Mr. Shuttleworth, You have a great vision and when I first discovered Ubuntu at version 10.04 LTS, I loved it from the start because it embodied the notion that Free is as in Freedom. Myself and 3 other of my engineer friends who work professionally for a fortune 100 company were so happy with it we were introducing it into our organization and were about to bring it in to start to sit alongside RHEL, and then it seems you started thinking like Steve Jobs or something. The UNITY interface and its mandates like for instance very much this simple request to be able to move the taskbar around being denied turned us away from Ubuntu. Bye. We would have quite likely introduced your os into a large company that would have eventually paid you lots of money year after year for support etc. We are now using other flavors of linux which still embrace Free as in Freedom. Others if you are disappointed by this new mentality that Cannonical has so unfortunately seemingly taken on to be the Apple of open source, checkout alteratives like CENTOS, or gentoo or a host of others just as good and still more in line with Freedom. I am still running a 12.04 Ubuntu machine at home and I like it very much for playing around with but if ever there is a real OS to be considered for use in a situation that would generate revenue for Cannonical, IMHO, it has to get back to Free as in Freedom, and please start by allowing the user to simply move the launch bar wherever they want to put it for crying out loud. There is still time. There are so many more people than I think you realize that may be gone or leaving that you can win back with this simple change. Or not, it's your world boss. Regards, Mike -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668415 Title: Movement of Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/668415/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
