OT: The semantics of the terms PC/Mac

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/9/25 Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:30:54 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> uttered these words:
>
>> Guys, please… do we really need this discussion here?
>> Hopefully we can stop this very unnecessary argument right now, no
>> matter who got the last words, and continue to help each other here,
>> at "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>.
> [snipped]
>
> Well, Johnny,
>
> I haven't seen any argument on this topic, and your description of it
> as "very unnecessary" is your opinion and one that I do not share.

Ok, maybe I used the wrong word then. English is really not my language.

>
> Also I have not seen any "general discussion", but a very specific
> discussion about how a term within the Ubuntu OS and community is
> perceived.  Since that community is made up of a diverse mix of
> nationalities and cultures, and *Ubuntu has a philosophy which states
> that:
>
>> The most important thing about Ubuntu is that it confers rights of
>> software freedom on the people who install and use it. It is these
>> freedoms that enable the Ubuntu community to grow, continue to share
>> its collective experience and expertise to improve Ubuntu and make it
>> suitable for use in new countries and new industries.
>
> and therefore it implicitly embraces new countries and ethnic groupings
> so it is just the sort of question that should be raised because it
> brings into question whether something new is in line with the
> philosophy of Ubuntu, and that is directly in line with "Ubuntu
> technical support".
>
> We do not all live in the U.S.A.

You are right. I, for instance, have never been in the USA in my
entire life and I have no plans going there. I have other priorities
than traveling…

> and we are not all bound by its laws
> or moral perceptions, yet other discussions (one of which about the
> technicality of the legal term 'criminals' for Microsoft employees)
> appeared in this list and was **NOT** sent to Sounder, yet applied to a
> limited number of legal jurisdictions (ie "The semantics of the terms
> PC/Mac").
>
> If this sort of question is barred from the list, can somebody indicate
> where it should go, and so should any other discussions that focus
> primarily on matters in the U.S.A.?

I just thought that the discussion didn't really answer the OP's
question, that's all.

J.R.

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