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Fernando Morea
Teacher of Computer Science (Informatica) at IIS Lagrange, Milan, and Computer Science Engineer.
No, they should have contacted us, the Ubuntu Unity team, about their idea and what they try to do instead of going their own way. Maybe we could have worked out something since the Ubuntu Unity team still needs all the help we can get.
If someone can spend time creating a unofficial remix, they could better use that time and help with the development of Ubuntu Unity.
And using the Ubuntu Unity name for a personal project is simply not done.
We (the Ubuntu community) should embrace people experimenting with things. Someone experimented and made something to show the world. That’s a great thing!
Rather than “You should have contacted us”, you could have said “Let’s get in contact, and work together”. So what if someone made an ISO using the name? They didn’t delete your work to do it.
Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours burn any brighter.
I downloaded the ISO and booted it up. It’s just an Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 image with Ubuntu Unity from the repos. This doesn’t compete, replace, or undo anything you have done. So please, everyone, calm down. It’s just an ISO made with Cubic.
I couldn’t even boot the iso from a usb stick to have a look.
They stated that this was a build of Unity on top of Gnome Flashback which seems not the case from what i understand from your comment @popey ?
Besides that, to me, it gives a false impression about Ubuntu Unity itself since they aren’t even involved.
We have opened a topic about that we need help and everyone willing to is welcome. Up to now just two people actually came to help out and provided fixes which still need to be approved and uploaded by a sponsor.
Just my 2 cents.
Gentle reminder to everyone that the Ubuntu Code of Conduct requires:
Do not assume bad faith.
You are responsible for your words.
This community welcomes remixes and other experimentation, and discussion about them.
We do want to make clear that we consider experimentation and discussion different from support. The community does not promise to provide support for experiments and remixes.
