Request for proofreading of release announcement mail

Vadim Peretokin vperetokin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 12:12:46 UTC 2007


'We are privileged to have millions of users running Ubuntu every day".
commented Jane Silber, COO of Canonical UK.

I think we want a " at the beginning too then, if it ends with one.

On 10/18/07, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:09:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Vadim,
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:06:14AM -0400, Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> > > This might somewhat silly, but I had a few people ask me "Which
> version of
> > > Ubuntu do I get?", them all being on laptops. Could it say - "Ubuntu
> is a
> > > Linux distribution for your desktop, laptop or server" - since that
> doesn't
> > > specify the versions of Ubuntu explicitly, it should be fine.
> >
> > Doesn't sound silly to me at all, but I'd like Matt's opinion before
> making
> > this change.  Of course the current meaning of "desktop" here is
> "computers
> > running a desktop environment" rather than "desktop computers", so while
> > confusing I want to be sure this change in meaning is ok before
> committing.
>
> I have no problem with it.
>
> --
> - mdz
>
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