Food For Thought

[Elfy]

On 31/05/13 09:15, Jackson Doak wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>
>         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
>
>         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
>
>         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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Not sure it was a joke - but I'm not sure taking seriously as a bug 
helps much - and people complaining about it is worse imho.

Anyway - wasted enough time on this now.

If there's a real reason behind this mail I'd prefer to see it as such 
and not mixed up with the bug reports.

Elfy

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Ubuntu Forum Council Member

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