As you know, Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu – have told their users that eventually, Ubuntu will be an “immutable” operating system with almost every piece of software – from the default web browser to the Linux kernel itself – installed via their proprietary snap format. This means once Ubuntu is released as an immutable desktop (they are aiming this goal for Ubuntu 24.04), it will become ILLEGAL to modify Ubuntu in any way, and it will be impossible to remove the snap libraries without rending your OS useless.

Just recently, Canonical released Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur, however hours after releasing it, they pulled the ISO from the internet.

Why?

According to Canonical. they claimed that a contributor had included anti-semitic hate speech in the Ukrainian language package,

Did Canonical show any proof of said hate speech?

Of course not.

Now why would Canonical raise such a fuss about anti-semitic speech from a Ukrainian?

Maybe the so-called hate speech didn’t really exist, and maybe Canonical decided to invent a story about hate speech as a pretext to lock development of Ubuntu down to a core group.

Truth is, anybody can currently remaster Ubuntu – or any of its community flavors – using CUBIC and include whatever “hate speech” they want.

Perhaps this event was staged as a pretext to halt the CUBIC project.