Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Anders Karlsson]

On 4/19/06, "Andrew Zajac" <arzajac at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The mailing lists tend to adhere to netiquette reasonably well. The
> > web forums - well - don't.
> 
> I tend to dissagree.  People tend to be pretty well behaved on the
> Ubuntuforums, in comparison with other web forums.  I guess Ubuntu
> attracts and breeds more respectfulness.

If that is the case, that is a good thing. :)

> Are you judging the forums by what is cross-posted onto the user's
> mailing list or the whole forums?

By what leaked onto the mailing lists in the past. Lots of replies to
spam, AOL-esque replies and no sense of quoting who was responded to or
what the discussion was about. Just made the Forums seem a random noise
generator. I appreciate that on the Forum itself, due to its layout etc,
a one-liner "Me too!!1!!!" may actually work, but on a mailing list it
sort of doesn't.

> The article in question misunderstood the forums as being the whole
> community base.  Why do you think that is?  I'm sure the forums are
> the only important part of the ubuntu community to a great number of
> people, but it would be nice if the forums were closer to the rest of
> the ubuntu community.

Well, if the writer of the article assumed that the web forum was the
whole user and developer community - they are not a very good reporter
then. And that starts casting doubt over the rest of the article.

I do not have an answer to how to make the web forums more tightly
integrated. What I can think of is to link them more tightly with the
mailing lists - but I fear that would make either the web forums or the
maililng lists unusable due to the writing style and conventions of
both.

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>