Forget Hardy

[Bart Silverstrim]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 01:13 -0700 schrieb Steve Lamb:
>>      Erm, slang is used all the time in technical discussions.  It is what 
>> makes technical discussions possible without having to spend 50 minutes 
>> spelling everything out.  Part of engaging in technical discussions, in ANY 
>> field, is learning the slang.
> Ubuntu should be different here and should adapt to the user instead of
> requiring the user to adapt to the tech slang, really.	

Are you saying that the initial users of Linux...those who are or tend 
to be more geek/technology oriented...working in a group of people 
primarily attracting like-minded people...should be turned off to using 
Ubuntu because they'll be attacked by net-nannies telling them they need 
to tone down and "dumb down" for fear of scaring off people who really 
don't want anything to do with the computer other than playing a video 
game, with no interest in the reason those technology-minded people 
first got involved in the first place?

Because I think the last time that what done it was called AOL...