With its focus on usability, Canonical’s Ubuntu is held up by many as the best Linux distribution of all time, and its Distrowatch rankings tend to reinforce that belief. Not only is the distro currently the most frequently downloaded from that site, but all the many ground-shaking changes it has announced promise to keep it exciting well into the future. For those of us who love Ubuntu, then, it was both distressing and perplexing to read Bruce Byfield’s recent blog post entitled, “Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?” Growing concerns and criticisms about Ubuntu’s relationship with the open source community at large are Byfield’s focus.