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Message-Id: <20100225223750.D206DB00B5@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:37:50 +0000
From: "John Q Public" <johndoetron@...h.ai>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Cc: mark@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is Big brother Ubuntu

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Hey Mark, and also FD,

I think I was a little too strict.

Lucid Lynx is spectacular. The effort on this by the community is
incredible. It's stable.

We've come a long way here.

However, I'm a bit concerned about hard-coding in such blogcruft by
default.

Please consider giving this some thought.

Respectfully yours,
John Doe

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:28:15 +0000 John Q Public
<johndoetron@...h.ai> wrote:
>wtf is this.
>
>A centralized identity system?
>
>In an open source operating system? By default?
>
>You're going overboard here. You're just a rich trustfunder and
>your proles are afraid to say you're making a huge error.
>
>I never asked for my OS to become this big chatroom filled with a
>bunch of autistic, idiotic facebook kids. I can't stand that.
>
>Ubuntu one? Chatroom accounts? Online, Invisible? You're turning
>the default Ubuntu into your huge autistic chatroom.
>
>Disable this, or name it teenbuntu.
>
>You are integrating this immature stuff into a Long Term Support
>version of Ubuntu. Desktop or not, I don't want to be forced into
>your schema and big brother "social tray icon". Remove it by
>default. Make it available via the software center.
>
>Please fix this, you're making a big mistake. Other than that, I'm
>extremely excited for Lucid Lynx.
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