On 4/12/05, Philippe Landau <<a href="mailto:lists@mailry.net">lists@mailry.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: >>- A single united goal of inter-project and inter-distribution >>collaboration and Total World Domination. >> >>* We aim to be a commercial *and* community project >>-- >>Glanz >> > > Hi Glanz, > > 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. </blockquote></div>=================================== Better get my foil hat, methinks..... Chill pill, anyone??? -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei