"No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions."
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From Mark Shuttleworth comment on bug #532633 (about the position of the windows buttons in Ubuntu Lucid).
These are the shocking words of the comment, quoted here to attract your attention, but please: read the comment entirely. Why? Because I think it enlightens some points that are widely misunderstood in the way the Ubuntu community works.
Ubuntu community is open, but being an open community is not the same as saying everybody has a say in everything. So it’s open to a certain level of openness.
I’m not saying that this is wrong, just it’s better to be clear about it.
