Food For Thought

[Jackson Doak]

that bug must have been a joke to start with, it's evolved, possibly for
the worst.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 31/05/13 01:55, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>
>> I commend the article by John C. Dvorak at the following link to the team
>> for consideration:
>>
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/**0,2817,2419744,00.asp<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419744,00.asp>
>>
>> Mr. Dvorak reacts in the article to the closing of Launchpad Bug #1 today
>> by Mark Shuttleworth with a "Fix Released" which was explained here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834>
>>
>> I concur with Mr. Dvorak that while technical superiority is great the
>> problem is marketing and sales.  I additionally agree that a shift back to
>> a mainframe-dominated computing paradigm seems to be in the cards much as
>> Mr. Dvorak and I discussed about five years ago.  Mr. Dvorak's remarks fall
>> in line with comments by Software Freedom Conservacy President Bradley Kuhn
>> here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1844<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1844>
>>
>> As we begin the Saucy Salamander cycle, perhaps we need to consider what
>> a world would look like with major deployments of Xubuntu in 100 to 1,000
>> seat environments.  What would that look like?  How would we position that?
>>  What is the value we bring in today's computing world with our
>> technological distinctives?
>>
>> Again, these are just things to think about as we dig into ops this cycle.
>>
>> Stephen Michael Kellat
>>
>>
>>
>>  Sorry - I thought it was a ridiculous bug in 2007 when I first saw it.
>
> Now it's been marked it's causing arguments about whether it should have
> been or not - even more ridiculous.
>
> Elfy
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