Timeline for Should System76, and other Canonical Partners, be given a tag?
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 21:20 | comment | added | Anon | @Braiam Unfortunately you continue to use the same fallacy of a faulty comparison. You have failed to address the point of a) "canonical" being a tag, and why it deserves to be one. And b) That Partners to Canonical are different from just manufacturers, which that article is addressing. To the article op though: where something-developed-by-or-related-to-microsoft can be excel, windows, visual-studio... you get the idea. ergo; should the tag then be not system76, but "gazelle-professional", or "system76-restoration-image", or "system76-driver"? | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 19:27 | comment | added | Braiam | @Akiva I rest my case | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | Anon | @Braiam We are speaking about companies run by people, not a law of nature. Facebook being compared to System76 is in my opinion; inappropriate. Facebook does not have paying customers. Facebook is not expected to provide support, and System76 has a proven track-record at Ubuntu Forums. If people have migrated from Ubuntu Forums to AskUbuntu, then it follows that there is some pragmatism for System76 and others similar (Perhaps BQ and Meizu) to do the same. However I think Elijah and Oli make a good point in letting the company approach AU first before creating the tag. What do you think? | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 15:46 | comment | added | Braiam | @Oli "A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether." I prefer to be wise in this situation. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 15:40 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Braiam It doesn't matter who they talk to. All I care about is that it's the company or developer that requests the tag and that they take it seriously. Those guidelines are a good start but try not to get too bogged down in bureaucracy before there's even a hint of a problem. We are essentially talking about a series of events that hasn't even started. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | Braiam | @Oli In that case it should be the company that talk with SE not us. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 14:46 | comment | added | Oli Mod | "Haven't in the past" does not mean "won't in the future". If a company wanted to support their Ubuntu users through a branded tag, we'd be idiots to turn them away. We could always remove it later on if it turned out to not be worth it. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 14:11 | comment | added | Braiam | I'm just saying that companies tags just don't work in SE, for whatever reasons people wants to create them, and my anecdote seems relevant only to your answer "I think that if there are people who work for System76" <--- terribad idea | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:31 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
@Braiam That arrangement was not the basis for the facebook tag existing on Stack Overflow, and the degradation of that arrangement has not resulting in anyone advocating against the existence of that tag. If you believe that situation really is relevant to this question, you might consider posting an answer.
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 3:14 | comment | added | Braiam | You know there was a agreement between Facebook and Stack Exchange, in which some Facebook employees will answer questions, but that died out pretty quickly? Lets not repeat the same mistake. Do not create company tags under the pretense that employees will answer questions. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 1:18 | vote | accept | Anon | ||
| Aug 6, 2014 at 1:17 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |