[ubuntu-art] WAS [...lots of ranting!]

[Billy]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:03 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote:

> First can we start clipping QUOTES down to the minimum?
> 
> Fishing stinks.
> 
> On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 02:40 -0500, Billy wrote:
> > Choice is good business. Strangely, many include color in their choice
> > of whether to install or buy. If they knew they had a few choices, or
> > even one they wanted. They wouldn't install or buy something else.
> > Just ask GM and Ford. They've learned the hard way.
> 
> I agree with Pascal here I'm afraid.  I like the direction, and it is 
> distinct.  Anyone who learns _anything_ about a *nixlike environment
> knows that you can customize it to your hearts content.  And that 
> comes without installing 1000000s of after-market tools.
> 
> 99.9999999% of the desktop users who come to check it out will
> NOT be looking for alternate themes.  If they stay, they will.
> 
> We need to be distinct.  We need to be focused.  
> 
> To this end, we are.
> 
> PS:  Knowledge dictates that a computer is not akin to a 
> car in any way.  It is art, literature, science, music, language,
> society, and a host of other things.  We need to quit addressing
> a computer like some sort of novelty gadget.


Someone coming from Windows or mac hasn't learned anything of the nix
env, so they don't know.

Where did you get your percentage? It's way off!

Now all of a sudden we're focused? That was fast!

Your professed knowledge has nothing to do with what a coputer is to one
person verses another. As someone that worked for the world's largest
market research firm for 3 years, I thought it was a very good
comparrison and one that goes without saying...but I said it anyway ;)
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