Ubuntu is under attack

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Mike Bird wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:29, Peter Garrett wrote:
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>>I don't think yelling and conspiracy theories are going to help much, do
>>you?
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>There are people who believe that limiting user choices to that
>dictated by their personal religion is THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
>(Capitals in their thoughts.)  They have applied their doctrine
>to Gnome and Fedora, and have now started on Ubuntu.
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>I don't claim that their purpose is to harm Ubuntu.
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>I do claim that their approach is fundamentally flawed and
>incompatible with software freedom and will harm Ubuntu if
>not stopped.
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>--Mike Bird
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Hi all,
as a relatively new user, I am still finding my way around Ubuntu and Linux
in general. I as a new user I do get the feeling that Ubuntu is being 
dumbed down,
I thought  that the command line, terminal was central to linux, giving 
the user
2 bites of the apple so to speak, a GUI and a terminal, and I have to 
admit I thought
not being able to access a terminal from right click on desktop was a 
backward step.
Why not keep the menu's with a button to allow access to all the hidden 
applications
similar to "View - show hidden files" and keep the power users happy too?
Take Care
Winton