[suppressingfire]

My only problem is that it's marked "fixed." I'd rather the bug be OBSOLETE or WONTFIX (I guess LP's closest status to those is "Invalid" which is fine, too). That would short circuit most of the arguments about the fact that the desired action isn't verifiable, and anyone that disagrees would have to argue at a higher level: is owning the desktop/laptop market a worthy goal, especially now that OS X is a serious contender? Is it sufficient that Android is Linux-based in the mobile/tablet market?

[mwfunk]

Yeah, he could've phrased it better or gone through the mechanics of closing it in a better way. I totally respect so many things about Mark and Ubuntu and what they've accomplished, but he can flub his delivery sometimes. I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt. What I wrote was what I hope his motivations were and I may be giving him too much or too little credit.

My interpretation was that Mark didn't want to focus on MS so much and he wants to reorient Ubuntu's goals somewhat, and this was a slightly weaselly and not 100% honest attempt to do that. It's totally conjecture based on watching the guy over the years, though. I think his heart's in the right place and I hope I'm right.