credibility

If Ubuntu announced that a radically new theme would be included in Ubuntu 9.04, would you believe them?

After promising exactly that in 8.04 and again in 8.10 without ever delivering, I would not.

Through a series of mis-steps and undelivered promises, Ubuntu has lost much of its credibility. Noticed that the new theme that was supposed to arrive in 8.04 still has not come?

RoughlyDrafted Magazine: "After dumping its $10 million contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three ads (only two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where regular people and a few celebrities say, "I'm a PC!" One problem with the campaign's credibility: the ad work was created using Macs."

Here's a Datamation article raising concerns about the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat resulting from the handling of the recent security problems.

"The damage to Fedora's credibility is potentially immense. In a matter of days, Red Hat has quashed Fedora's claim to independence.

Today’s article will be a bit different than the previous ones since I’m going to focus on the biggest annoyances of KDE 4.1 from my personal perspective.

In order to maintain some credibility I’ll however point out the solid achievements alongside with the failures of K Desktop Environment 4.1.

The FSF’s dedication to ideological purity often strains credibility but, in this case, they really go too far.

Time was, Apple products had zero credibility with serious geeks -- they were perceived as being purely artists' tools.

Starting today, I’m writing daily news blurbs for the Ars Technica Open Ended news-oriented journal about Linux and open source in general.

I’ve been wanting to do something like this for quite some time, since the Ars name brings along with it some credibility and respect from the community.