For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions
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Now: "Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums," someone has told us. This is what all pages look like right now.
Every page looks like this now. Previously there was a notice but the contents remained intact.
There's no sign that they will migrate anything. In fact, the URLs will break entirely. Canonical used proprietary software (vBulletin) for its forums. This also caused problems for Phoronix.
Canonical has been very busy selling proprietary software lately, especially Microsoft's. Mr. Shuttleworth has pulled up the ladder from beneath his feet. He moaned there was "no money" in GNU/Linux for laptops/desktops and now he's selling (or reselling) Windows and other products of Microsoft, even based on ludicrously false marketing. █