A Salute to Ubuntu Volunteers
Recently, on another site, someone suggested that the development and marketing of Ubuntu was done by paid staff of Canonical. Having been actively involved in the Arizona Team for 8 months I would like to say that I really doubt that the suggestion can be taken seriously by anyone who knows a little about Ubuntu. I am tempted to consider such a comment to be FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) fostered for the sole purpose of disparaging against Ubuntu and the people that make it work.
I would call your attention to the tremendous volunteer effort that goes into Ubuntu. Not all development is done by paid staff of Canonical. The repositories are Universe, Multiverse, and Restricted. The people who manage those repositories are called MOTU’s (Master’s of the Universe, a nice little inside joke) and are volunteers that are acknowledged to the title for their demonstrated commitment to Ubuntu and it’s principles. This demonstrated commitment is in the form of the work that they have performed in upgrading programs, fixing bugs and in general making Ubuntu run smoother and perform with greater security. It takes a great deal of work - a large amount of manpower - to not only supply these updates and security to one release, but to do it for 4 releases PLUS the proposed upcoming release.
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