<p dir="ltr">I agree with Peter. Mark's whole idea of Ubuntu comes from his space trip where he looked at earth and it gad no borders. And he found free/libre software the beat way to give back to humanity.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now thats the point isn't. Freedom from RMS to Linus to the entire free software is cross border international community akin to our African villages. Which makes Ubuntu the philosophy even more apt.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now that's a better way to think and use your tech-for freedom. I for one have no energy to argue with people to stay on whatever distro. If one wants to use a GNU/linux distro then you will. If not cheers</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best</p>
<p dir="ltr">Leon G. Marincowitz<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 08 Aug 2013 2:31 PM, "Peter Nel" <<a href="mailto:fourdots@gmail.com">fourdots@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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When i purchased my new laptop<br>
the first thing I did was to dual boot between Linux and Windoze<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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Since Ubuntu is no longer South African I do not see why we should have<br>
loyalty to a foreing product which tomorow they will use European<br>
Cryptography laws to give a a lower version for South Africa<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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Nico<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Cheers</div><div>Peter </div></div>
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