It should go on your blog. I just signed up to this list to get help on an issue on my HP mini and I received no help. However I do get over 30 messages of Linux vs Windows, stuff that I can read anywhere on the net. I don't want to rip on anyone, but please focus on the purpose of the list. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Graham Todd <<a href="mailto:grahamtodd2@googlemail.com">grahamtodd2@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:30:54 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg <<a href="mailto:gurus.knugum@gmail.com">gurus.knugum@gmail.com</a>> 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" > <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>>. [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. 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. 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.? -- Graham Todd () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ <a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a> - against proprietary attachments Please, no MS-Office documents - <a href="http://linux.sgms-centre.com/advocacy/no-ms-office.php" target="_blank">http://linux.sgms-centre.com/advocacy/no-ms-office.php</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>