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by ppseafield 2205 days ago
EDIT: As a reply to this pointed out, these predate the things I claimed were created from NIH syndrome. Please disregard.

Original comment:

They also created their own init system Upstart, only to replace it with systemd later. They have their own source control system, Bazaar.

I really appreciated Ubuntu back in '06 when my laptop's wifi and graphics drivers just worked out of the box. I've used Ubuntu in various forms for a long time. But their management has some serious NIH problems.

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> They also created their own init system Upstart, only to replace it with systemd later. They have their own source control system, Bazaar... their management has some serious NIH problems.

Citing these as a case of NIH is inaccurate -- Upstart and Bazaar predate Systemd and Git, respectively.

It's fairer to say that Canonical's technology, for whatever reason, often doesn't seem to catch on with the broader FOSS community.

Ah! That's my error; thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't realized that. I'll edit my comment.