If Greg had started his post with a question along the lines of:

  "Dear Mark, what can GNOME do to help 
   Canonical integrate your  work & devs 
   with upstream?"

Rather than:

  "*omfgroflcopter* you Canonical dudes 
   are all like soooo lame and have never
   done anything for GNOME"

...then maybe his post would have translated to a measurable improvement in my reality.

As it stands all he's created is a distraction from getting code written.

sigh