What’s Cool, and what’s Uncool
Cool: Ubuntu 7.04 is bound to be supported by Dell, pre-loaded or not.
Uncool: Someone who has access to the Planet Ubuntu server decided to remove people who blogged about the whole Ubuntu – Dell thing. If its not bound to happen, why remove them without any notice? Thumbs down on this one. Giving a gag order to someone employed by Canonical is understandable, but giving the smack down to community is another story.
What’s even more lame is that the post you link to above was linked to by Boing Boing. So, there’s 20k Unique visitors an hour for about 8 hours that won’t know what the hell is going on.
What a great message to send to people.
[...] Update: Whether or not the above announcement is accurate, Dell appears to support Ubuntu 7.04 at least minimally with installation instructions. Whether they will pre-load Ubuntu remains a mystery. [...]
devnet: I believe 3 of us aggregated in Planet Ubuntu got booted out because of this. My original post was at http://loktarogar.blogspot.com/2007/05/congratulations.html
[...] It has been confirmed in many other places too. google_ad_client = “pub-6428776377650710″; google_ad_width = 728; [...]
[...] have been a drastic measure, I’m just not happy about the way it’s being handled, and I’m not the only one. google_ad_client = “pub-6428776377650710″; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height [...]
[...] (un planet que normalmente es actualizado cada media hora). Y unos cuantos blogs (el de beuno, este y este otro) que de *pura* casualidad habían nombrado el tema de dell vendiendo pc’s con [...]
it’s interesting to note that my blog entry
about that rumour (it was still one at the time) wasn’t removed, and was the 2nd entry on planet for the many hours while it
wasn’t updated during that “lock down” period. That whole planet story disturb me a bit….
[...] have been a drastic measure, I’m just not happy about the way it’s being handled, and I’m not the only [...]
[...] of community, Canonical is getting some flak for gagging bloggers on Planet Ubuntu. Guess as a company, they’re also dealing with change, and moving [...]
Daniel, yeah a couple of us talked about your earlier blog entry. It’s probably because the “rumour” part is more visible and written as a question rather than a “confirmation” compared to what some of us wrote. It’s a funny situation where capitalism has prevailed and shows that the project sponsor is moving upward in terms of business. How this affects community participation is yet to be seen.
[...] now been cleared (not sure yet why whom, how, etc), Fabian Rodriguez’s post is still MIA, and Jerome Gotangco gives the situation a thumb [...]
[...] now been cleared (not sure yet why whom, how, etc), Fabian Rodriguez’s post is still MIA, and Jerome Gotangco gives the situation a thumb [...]
[...] on Dell – Good for Linux or just for Canonical? by Sander Marechal After a few unsuccessful attempts to censor the news, the big word is finally out: Dell will sell some desktop and laptop models with Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 [...]
Canonical censura Planet Ubuntu…
Por haberse adelantado a la nocticia de prensa oficial respecto a la distribución de los nuevos ordenadores de Dell con Ubutu preinstalado, la sindicación de varios bloggers (y sus posts posts) fueron eliminados de Planet Ubuntu, un portal que agrega…
I wonder if it’s the same person who removed Ian Murdock’s blog from Planet Debian one day?
http://keybuk.livejournal.com/15569.html
http://ianmurdock.com/?p=180
Ah no..from what I know, keybuk doesn’t handle the servers even. There’s going to be a spec to make sure things are well defined and what actions should be taken next time. The spec is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntuEditorialPolicy
But as keybuk mentioned in the link above, business partners of Canonical won’t see the artificial distinctions between URLs.