>> If Adobe wants to collaborate with Canonical, Adobe must make their >> software Free. > > Uhh I thought Canonical is a business, not a communist organization..
I'm not an employee of Canonical, but to the best of my understanding, it is not a communist organization, but a business, which is improving and releasing Free Software. This business wouldn't be possible without the Free Software community, so it gives something back by sticking to Free Software principles. The Free Software movement have been called communist many times: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.gnu.org+communist >> Why then do you bother with Free Software in the first place? > > I like some open source software like Firefox, RubyOnRails, Python, > Java, WebKit, Gimp, Apache, etc Do you like them because of their functionality, because you don't have to pay for them, or because they are Free/Open Source? I'm not a graphic designer, but from what i've heard Photoshop is functionally better than Gimp. So if you would receive a license for Photoshop for zero dollars, would you keep using Gimp? I would keep using GNU/Linux even if i would get Windows for zero dollars, despite the fact GNU/Linux lacks some functionality that Windows has, because i want to use Free Software. The many social and technical benefits of Free Software are listed at www.gnu.org , but here's my favorite: You are allowed, legally and technically, to fix the bugs in it yourself, and if you don't have the skill to fix the bug, you can file a bug in a public bug-tracking system and actually follow its solution, often seeing the most important developers and project leaders participating in it. You won't get that in the proprietary software world. So basically, the existence of Launchpad as a public bug-reporting website is a huge advantage of Ubuntu. The same goes for SourceForge, Bugzilla and other public bug-reporting websites, which - to the best of knowledge - only exist in the Free Software community. But hey, if you don't care about it, then you shouldn't care about this "Bug #1". And to answer your original question - there are many other bugs about improving user experience. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
