JP Vossen on 16 Feb 2012 11:21:26 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu pulls the 'official' plug on Kubuntu


Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:41:57 -0500
From: Art Alexion<art.alexion@gmail.com>

I suppose most of you already know this; I just found out.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/ubuntu-pulls-the-official-plug-on-kubuntu/3417?tag=nl.e011

My understanding is that *one guy* who used to be allowed/encouraged/something to work on Kubunut during work hours now has to do other stuff instead, and there is no more "official" Canonical support.

A summary:
http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/how-kubuntu-did-not-change/

More:
http://feed.nixternal.com/~r/nixternal/~3/x7wHMjMSa7U/

Original post from that one guy:
http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531

FWIW,
JP
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