World Domination?

[Michele Ravani]

Is so hard to believe that somebody who made more money he is likely to 
be able to spend in his whole life by the age of 26 (or around it), can 
pump a few millions in a project which is likely to make a difference 
(think of Africa)?

He spent more to take a walk in space ...

May be Ubuntu will become a commercially sound project or may be not.
I don't think this is the point for Shuttleworth, Call me naive, but I 
prefer to believe that there are still people which being in the 
position to do something positive, they will do it without afterthoughts.

In any case, we are taking profit of the project and if their aim is to 
take over the world's desktop, so be it. It would be an improvement on 
the current situation in any case, at least on the way there.

Ubuntu isn't a joke. It is a true alternative for those which have a few 
  choices and those which are worried about all the major distros being 
bought up by big corporations.
It seems that we are not alone with this worry, as DistroWatch 
statistics seem to confirm ...

Philippe, as somebody in the thread said, you are excommunicating 
yourself. If you don't like the sugar coating, move to another distro.
May be you are right, maybe it is just sugar coating, but it doesn't 
have to be there for us to choose Ubuntu and we don't have to eat it if 
it is given to us. This is the basic idea, to have a choice ...

... you could start your own distro and talk about the reasons for it 
being true choice, no frills, no dogmas. It wouldn't take a long time 
for somebody coming up with similar criticisms you are posting here.

Take care
M


Philippe Landau wrote:
> John or Margaret Montgomery wrote:
> 
>>> - A single united goal of inter-project and inter-distribution
>>> collaboration and Total World Domination.
>>>
>>> * We aim to be a commercial *and* community project
>>> -- 
>>> Glanz
>>>
>>
>> Hi Glanz,
>>
>> Are you serious?
>> We are currently in a situation where there is near total world 
>> dominance and I do not like it. That is why I have had a MS free 
>> computer for a couple of years now.
>>
>> Surely you mean a world where everyone has a choice.
>>
>> If you or Ubuntu ever threaten to become 'totally world dominant' Then 
>> you will be the enemy and I shall do all I can to cut you back to a 
>> reasonable size.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> John Montgomery
> 
> 
> Good to hear you, John.
> 
> They are playing with these words,
> making it look like it's all just jokes,
> but you just have to look at the power structure
> of Canonical/Ubuntu to know that they don't shell out
> 20 million dollars in 2 years just for a joke.
> 
> Software has become a dominant factor in our world
> and while trying to replace Windows seems great,
> few are waking up to the fact that
> we are being steered towards new monopolies.
> 
> Mark Shuttleworth is calling it the "battle for the desktop".
> And those not laughing in the chorus and swallowing
> "humanity towards others" sugar coating, while the general
> directs his troops and our computers, are excommunicated.
> 
> kind regards     philippe
> 
>