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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 02. nov. 2011 06:07, skrev anthropornis:
> I suspected that. Naturally, at least 98% of Canonical's new target 
> demographic(s) is quite capable of editing the source.

You were talking about Canonical not giving their permission for you to 
have a feature. That is provocative since they grant you all rights to 
change anything you like in any of their products.

> Certainly, if I had the know-how, I could just go create my own OS 
> from scratch, build my own mobo from scratch, etc. This is Ubuntu, not 
> Arch, and yes, everyone knows they can do everything themselves, 
> whether it's their operating system, or changing their oil.
But if you acknowledge that these things are not simple, then you must 
also realise that there is a limited number of people who are capable of 
doing these things. When Canonical pays these people to write software 
for you, they have to prioritise. And you asked for software to 
deactivate Canonicals software, didn't you? Does it make sense to you 
that something like that would have a high priority, if they even wanted 
to spend money on it at all?

By the way, I have never claimed that you should program stuff yourself.

> In other words,  Jo-Erlend Schinstad had nothing constructive to add. 
> Why do people post such unhelpful 

By the way, I have never claimed that you should program stuff yourself. 
I was simply pointing out that Canonical is not denying you anything, 
and when you say "Will Canonical ever permit the user to disable the 
launcher", you are implying that they are. I certainly didn't intend for 
this to become a discussion though.

Have a nice day.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad