[ubuntu-za] Forcing me back to Microsoft

[Peter Nel]

> When i purchased my new laptop
> the first thing I did was to dual boot between Linux and Windoze
>

I also got windows 7 with my laptop, and dual booted with ubuntu. I booted
windows like once or twice. Haven't touched it in over a year, if not more.


>
> Since Ubuntu is no longer South African I do not see why we should have
> loyalty to a foreing product which tomorow they will use European
> Cryptography laws to give a a lower version for South Africa
>

I think this is the wrong way to think about Ubuntu. I don't think we
should look at any gnu/linux OS as something bound to some country, since
it contains hundreds of thousands of contributions to it from all over the
world. The users are similarly diverse and distributed. This also means we
have better support for our OS.
I don't think Canonical could have pushed so far as they did, bringing us
things like the awesome Edge device coming out soon, etc. if they weren't
located in the commercial hub that is London. They gave Impi a shot - it
couldn't get us there. Nevertheless, I think it was an invaluable learning
experience for them. Interestingly "Ubuntu" was actually a name initially
put forward for Impi linux. Mark shuttleworth invested R10mil into that
project. I'm sure there's a good reason he pulled out.

Anyway, even if some European Cryptography laws were to impact it in some
way, someone from another country would be able to bypass it. Unless you
know otherwise, I don't even think what you say is possible.

...
> Nico
>
>
Cheers
Peter
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