They put their best people on the kernel, etc. They put a random intern to maintain Bitcoin.
They obviously stopped because they didn't care to maintain it. Our ppa guy can't even keep his updated. Still waiting on .91
I think we can all learn a lesson, especially if you use Linux. Review and build it from source.
Perhaps, but this is not realistic for average users. Most people have no idea what "source" is. They could be coached to installing something off of the ubuntu app marketplace, where bitcoin isn't going to be now, but "build it from source" is utterly beyond them. Same goes for PPAs...that is really pushing the boundaries of what an average ubuntu user is going to know how to do.
Maybe those people need something more safe than the QT client anyway, but still.