Hi,<br><br>I blog about Ubuntu Linux at <a href="http://www.kzenpragmaticist.org/search/label/Ubuntu" target="_blank">http://www.kzenpragmaticist.org/search/label/Ubuntu</a>
(my most recent entry is quoted below).<br><br>Can I / how do I request
a review for inclusion of my content on The Fridge?<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>-dave<br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><h2><font size="2"><span></span></font></h2>
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<a href="http://www.kzenpragmaticist.org/2010/04/why-ubuntu-linux-will-win.html" target="_blank">Why
Ubuntu Linux will WIN</a><font><font size="2"><span> (2010-04-28)</span></font></font> </h3></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<div><i>NB: this is NOT in a zero-sum game, so the term 'win' must be
taken
in that context!</i><br>
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<i>IMO: Mark Shuttleworth thoroughly noodled out last year </i>exactly
<i>how and why Canonical is NOT competing directly with Microsoft;
rather, as Linas Torvals commented in 2003,"</i>Really, I'm not out to
destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side
effect,"<i> Shuttleworth figured out that Canonical's best strategy is
to </i><b>out-Apple Apple</b>. <br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div>
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So, Why will Ubuntu Linux <b>WIN</b>? <i>(5-year horizon win)</i><i></i><br><p>Steve Jobs is a dying lunatic (sure, he's a genius but, as history
teaches us, lunacy and genius are NOT mutally exclusive), while Mark
Shuttleworth is a young, healty and imminently rational super-achiever
on a mission. Not to mention that this super-achiever leads a flock of
thousands of opensource developers (plus others) dedicated to the
success of Ubuntu Linux, while the lunatic tries to hold together an
over-supervised staff that live in fear. NB: this is <i>CLSASSIC</i>
Bazaar vs Cathredal stuff.</p><p>Mind you, I have NO doubt
that Apple will continue to see record profits AND grow its marketshare
year-on-year for the forseable future. </p><p>But, so will
Canonical (with, in my estimation, Ubuntu achieving marketshare parity
with OS X within 5 years); it is THIS suprise market disruption will be
Microsoft's undoing.</p><br>
<b>Ubuntu Linux: Mac '<i>for the rest of us</i>'</b> <br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
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<span>David Hart</span>
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