World Domination?

[Philippe Landau]

Michele Ravani wrote:
> 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 ...
yes, there definitely is a power struggle going on.
a rush for future dominance in a crucial market about to emerge.
dominate the desktop and you dominate
the media and communications of the future.
that is where the power lies.
fascism is based on controlling communication and propaganda.
it was always funded and driven by corporations like IBM.

> Philippe, as somebody in the thread said, you are excommunicating yourself. 
a community welcomes critical views.
a cult excommunicates people articulating them.

> If you don't like the sugar coating, move to another distro.
i like sugar coating.
i like other distros.
i wanted Ubuntu to be a good distro too.

> 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 ...
we are beginning to have a choice.
if we are careful, we will have one in the future too.

> ... 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.
the criticism becomes pointed not because Ubuntu is full of
bugs and fundamental design errors,
but because of the power structure driving it
and the attitude it imposes on a community
increasingly being shaped into a cult.

> Take care
> M
you too, great to have you here.

kind regards     philippe

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> Philippe Landau wrote:
>> John or Margaret Montgomery wrote:
>>>> - A single united goal of inter-project and inter-distribution
>>>> collaboration and Total World Domination.
>>> 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
>>
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