which people are in charge and control over Unity? are those the same people that decide to use it in different versions of Ubuntu?
- Who owns it?
- who controls what will be in it?
which people are in charge and control over Unity? are those the same people that decide to use it in different versions of Ubuntu?
Unity is a Canonical product. Canonical controls both Ubuntu and Unity.
UPDATE (after tumbleweed's comment):
"Canonical controls Ubuntu" (1) vs. "Canonical does not control Ubuntu development" (2).
Well, truth(tm) is probably somewhere in the middle. It's worth to mention about the Ubuntu Fundation which was founded by Mark to make Ubuntu more Canonical independent.
Anyhow, Ubuntu will probably never be as community controlled as Debian is, but I don't think it's bad. I think what Mark and Canonical do is really good. IMHO, Mark should get a Nobel prize for his attitude and accomplishments for the human race.
Unity and Ubuntu are both Canonical products. They are pieces of sotfware developed by Canonical Ltd. You can contribute in their development either by filing bug reports, solving bugs, translating the software, etc on Launchpad.net, which is a collaboration and hosting platform for software projects owned by Canonical, or you can also share your opinion, propose new ideas and vote your favourite ones about Ubuntu and its interface, Unity, on Ubuntu Brainstorm page:
From the Unity Launchpad page:
Designed by Canonical and the Ayatana community, Unity is all about the combination of familiarity and the future.
Have a look at the Unity Launchpad page for more information.
Unity is an open source project created at Canonical and like Ubuntu can be packaged with other distributions although I don't know of anyone else including Unity as a default desktop in their distribution yet but have it as an option. Control seems like such a strong term to be used in the context of open source. Oracle tried that with OpenOffice and it was forked along with the development team into LibreOffice. In the open source world you can lead, contribute and support a package but there are no patents or ownership that gives any individual or company control past the influence that comes with participation and support.
This article is about unity, how it's designed and how you participate in it, I think it explains My main question very well.