That's ok. Mark Shuttleworth wants to be Jobs mk II. This is his text from the ubuntu bug report on removing the update notification from the notification area.
"But, we're not afraid of making bold moves. Ubuntu itself was a bold move, and has attracted a fair amount of criticism for its very existence, but that didn't stop us. If we want to transform the Linux desktop from where it is today, to something that Apple will feel obliged to emulate in parts, we are going to have to make bold moves and big changes, and those will cause distress. If we're right, the result will be fantastic, and the changes will be embraced by other distributions and upstream. If we're wrong, they won't."
Unfortunately many people get the feeling they're trying a lot of things without enough thought put into it - and when people report problems as bugs, Mark steps in and says no. They're simply becoming something like Apple of Linux world.
Well, maybe to backtrack a little, I don't have a problem with that Steve Jobs pioneering attitude. You can disrupt the market if you'd like. But to have that immediate effect on the developers of applications, making them change their UI fairly significantly just for Ubuntu, I don't think it's their place. If they really wanted to be bold like that, they should make the changes in the apps themselves.
"But, we're not afraid of making bold moves. Ubuntu itself was a bold move, and has attracted a fair amount of criticism for its very existence, but that didn't stop us. If we want to transform the Linux desktop from where it is today, to something that Apple will feel obliged to emulate in parts, we are going to have to make bold moves and big changes, and those will cause distress. If we're right, the result will be fantastic, and the changes will be embraced by other distributions and upstream. If we're wrong, they won't."
Unfortunately many people get the feeling they're trying a lot of things without enough thought put into it - and when people report problems as bugs, Mark steps in and says no. They're simply becoming something like Apple of Linux world.