Community V. "Community

[Ray Parrish]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:25 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> Well, it _isn't_ really different.  You're always welcome to create
>> your own project, but if you want to join anybody else's project, the
>> process is not much different from getting into kernel development -
>> it's just that the bar is lower.
>>     
>
> Yeah, that#s what I actually meant to say, thanks for clarity.


This "noob" found the quote below just the other day in the Ubuntu help
files, and it impressed me mightily. Maybe the rest of you could have a 
look at it now. 8-)

> Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's 
> allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the 
> Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as 
> a traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding 
> principles of the new republic of South Africa and is connected to the 
> idea of an African Renaissance.
>                            
> A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards 
> others". Another  translation could be: "the belief in a universal 
> bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
>                            
>     "A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming 
> of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for 
> he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he 
> or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are 
> humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."
>  
> Archbishop Desmond Tutu
>
> As a platform based on Linux, the Ubuntu operating system brings the 
> spirit of ubuntu to the software world.

Later, Ray Parrish

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