A quiet board/ sorry/final thoughts

[Ian Brown]

What you posted was not spam. And please do not take that comment to
heart.
Good luck in your endeavour to replace closed source with open source
software. 

Bye for now,
*ian


On Wed, 2008-23-01 at 11:10 -0500, Patrick wrote:

> 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:
> >   
> >>> I hope no one will mind the off topic post.
> >>>     
> >>>       
> >> I do.
> >>
> >> 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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