Oops, re aptitude : was [Re: Edgy in the news]

Toby Smithe toby.smithe at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 20:14:32 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 13:58 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:00 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote: 
> > I think the *.ubuntu.com domain is part of the legitimacy problem.
> > ANYTHING under *.ubuntu.com will be treated as gospel by a sizeable
> > number of people (myself included -- I wasn't aware that that section
> > was NOT official Ubuntu documentation).
> 
> Would it be too practical to suggest domain names like "ubuntu.com",
> "ubuntucommunity.com" and so on to show the differences?

Sounds impractical to me: old docs pointing to ubuntu.com, er..., people
will /always/ first go to ubuntu.com; I might think of more reasons at
some point, but these are the first that pop to mind.




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