Comment 14 for bug 50699

Thanks for your responses, Mark.

>However, we are not going to do that until there is a clear revenue
>model to be able to pay the salaries of the developers working on the
>platform itself.

It's sad that even a company like Canonical feels it needs to protect
its revenue with closed-source code. But if you say that's the case,
then I'll take your word for it, and put up with a non-free launchpad
as a necessary evil.

> A better engineering solution to this would be federated communication
> between bugzilla instances, and roundup, and sourceforge, and Launchpad.

This sounds like a good long-term solution, yes.

>I also respect the wishes of someone who chooses not to use Launchpad
>because they do not have a copy of the code.

Indeed; when the 'ultra-orthodox' Ubuntu emerges, I hope it (we?) will
set up an open-source bugtracker &c for it - but one which interacts
with Launchpad as closely as possible.

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Dan O'Huiginn