[ubuntu-za] Forcing me back to Microsoft

[Leon Gert Marincowitz]

I agree with Peter. Mark's whole idea of Ubuntu comes from his space trip
where he looked at earth and it gad no borders. And he found free/libre
software the beat way to give back to humanity.

Now thats the point isn't.  Freedom from RMS to Linus to the entire free
software is cross border international community akin to our African
villages. Which makes Ubuntu the philosophy even more apt.

Now that's a better way to think and use your tech-for freedom. I for one
have no energy to argue with people to stay on whatever distro. If one
wants to use a GNU/linux distro then you will. If not cheers

Best

Leon G. Marincowitz
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lmarincowitz at gmail.com
On 08 Aug 2013 2:31 PM, "Peter Nel" <fourdots at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> When i purchased my new laptop
>> the first thing I did was to dual boot between Linux and Windoze
>>
>
> I also got windows 7 with my laptop, and dual booted with ubuntu. I booted
> windows like once or twice. Haven't touched it in over a year, if not more.
>
>
>>
>> Since Ubuntu is no longer South African I do not see why we should have
>> loyalty to a foreing product which tomorow they will use European
>> Cryptography laws to give a a lower version for South Africa
>>
>
> I think this is the wrong way to think about Ubuntu. I don't think we
> should look at any gnu/linux OS as something bound to some country, since
> it contains hundreds of thousands of contributions to it from all over the
> world. The users are similarly diverse and distributed. This also means we
> have better support for our OS.
> I don't think Canonical could have pushed so far as they did, bringing us
> things like the awesome Edge device coming out soon, etc. if they weren't
> located in the commercial hub that is London. They gave Impi a shot - it
> couldn't get us there. Nevertheless, I think it was an invaluable learning
> experience for them. Interestingly "Ubuntu" was actually a name initially
> put forward for Impi linux. Mark shuttleworth invested R10mil into that
> project. I'm sure there's a good reason he pulled out.
>
> Anyway, even if some European Cryptography laws were to impact it in some
> way, someone from another country would be able to bypass it. Unless you
> know otherwise, I don't even think what you say is possible.
>
> ...
>> Nico
>>
>>
> Cheers
> Peter
>
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