A quiet board/ sorry/final thoughts

[Patrick]

Well again it hurts like hell to be called a spammer but with people 
filling up our in-boxes with obscene products and stupid stock tips I 
can understand Sebastien's concern and cannot blame him. In my defense 
it was one computer, a linux certified one, not available in Canada and 
not being offered with any kind reasonable mark up but still in the end, 
it was a commercial email on a volunteer based list, probably not a good 
idea.

I am going to unsubscribe from this and the other Ubuntu lists shortly. 
I think I am out of my element but I would like to offer some final 
thoughts that I hope will be constructive. I have a small business 
selling lab instruments. The software to control these items is  between 
5-40K and is all closed source. I spend everyday working towards an open 
source replacement. I have started to pay developers to do the work I 
cannot do.

My interest in Linux is commercial based but is not entirely greed 
oriented. The labs I have for customers are fighting cancer, hepatitis, 
nutrient deficiencies etc. They are doing great work but they have their 
meager budgets eaten up by hyped up close source software. I want to 
offer a replacement. I am hoping to build a business around it 
a-la-redhat but in the end I don't care if I don't make a penny as long 
as this situation is remedied.

So to get to the point I have posted several times to the 
ubuntu-dev-discuss list about making Ubuntu a better power user platform 
for commercial environments and I had suggested an Ubuntu entrepreneurs 
list as well. I have spent hours posting to these lists and all my ideas 
were either rejected flat out or simply channeled into an unrelated project.

Bug #1 continues to haunt us. With the power and wealth of a small 
country they can continue to work deals and corrupt Governments. Linux 
provides an alternative but it is a slow burn that is making little 
progress in the desktop market. If we are ever able to send out a real 
challenge it wail have to be end-to-end. We need computer vendors 
thinking about us and we need to distribute linux products and open 
source services with greater speed.

I presently do not know of anywhere to go to collaborate with others who 
wish to under take this.

Sorry again about this morning post. Pleases keep up the spirit of 
volunteerism-Patrick



Patrick wrote:
> I have never been accused of spamming before and that hurts, I hate 
> spammers. Sorry for my inappropriate post, it will not happen again-Patrick
>
> Sébastien Corriveau wrote:
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>>> I hope no one will mind the off topic post.
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>> I do.
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>> Not only was it off topic, but it also was a spam. Almost Ubuntu 
>> related, but still spam.
>>
>> Just be careful next time and have a nice day,
>> Sébastien. 
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