GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell [FLAMEBAIT]

[Bruce Dawson]

Bill Sconce wrote:
> Arrogant. Unbelievable. The side effects were reported during beta
> and still the developers did this.
>   
Clearly, they made a decision, and you (and a number of others) just
don't like like it. The developer's justification appears to be "because
I think its best this way" (My observation is conscientious developers
would have stated their reasons and let it get hashed out in the various
forums.) On the other hand, they may be trying to force application
developers to fix their mistakes - this invariable turns out about as
successful as forcing Unix programmers to not use null-terminated strings.

Linux philosophy says you have a choice of another distribution. Open
Market philosophy says you can use another product (for the most part:
Windows, Apple, or BSD). Welcome to Open Source, where its the
developers fault instead of some nebulous company that hides behind
lawyers.

--Bruce