<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/05/13 09:15, Jackson Doak wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CA+K2i_3982UvevE6ZkBksFXGMkPm41r3aW41kVFaQcOcaodZpw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div dir="ltr">that bug must have been a joke to start with, it's evolved, possibly for the worst.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Elfy <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ub.untu@btinternet.com" target="_blank">ub.untu@btinternet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote">On 31/05/13 01:55, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote"> I commend the article by John C. Dvorak at the following link to the team for consideration: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419744,00.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419744,00.asp</a> 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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834</a> 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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1844" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1844</a> 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 </blockquote> 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 -- Ubuntu Forum Council Member -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote> </div> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> 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 <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Ubuntu Forum Council Member</pre> </body> </html>