Default Theme

[Jan Kokoska]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:31 -0700, Somnonaut wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:51:54 -0500, Kevin Krumwiede <kjkrum at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Early adopters may well be the bulk of the future user base if this
> > change stays in.
> > 
> > Krum
> > 
> 
> Exactly. Early adopters tend to be the ones who "spread the word." 
> 
> I'll neither be using nor recommending Ubuntu if the current theme is
> the default in the final release. I could personally care less about
> the default images, but there's no way I would even consider
> recommending the distro to anyone else.
> 
> Another pragmatic "no" vote here.

Seconded.

Ubuntu goes off at least 6 machines by the release date if I will be
required to circumvent a full dist-upgrade to run it in educational
multi-user environment.

And in such case, Canonical can keep the 20 CDs I asked for and for
which I have audience, I won't be needing them anymore.

> That's an argumentum ad verecundiam.  There is no reason to believe 
> that technical genius suggests good marketing sense, or vice-versa. 
> In fact, common sense says that the two are mutually exclusive.

Perfectly put. If there are exceptions to this rule, then this is not a
one.

Regards,

Jan Kokoska