full-disclosure - Re: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is Big brother Ubuntu

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:15:49 -0600
From: Michael <michael@...icdestruction.org>
To: news@...cean.net
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is Big brother Ubuntu

The error of the future:

"srry ur computar doent werks lolz.  brb gng two teh bathrm"

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:15 PM,  <news@...cean.net> wrote:
> Le jeudi 25 février 2010 23:43:54, Mark Shuttleworth a écrit :
>
>> We're bringing social interaction from the web, into the desktop. We're
>> breathing life back into the city center, as it were. We're making the
>> desktop more human. This is our mission, our reason for loving what we
>> do. I'm sorry if it offends you, but it's got many people int he
>> community very excited. There's no commercial conflict of interests here
>> - we're putting it in by default purely to delight users. I accept that
>> you're not delighted, but I don't see any signs that this won't be one
>> of the favorite things about the release, for most users.
>>
>
> Well, it is hard to believe that you don't have an agenda concerning this
> stuff.
> It would mean you are a bad leader, what I am sure is not the case.
> I don't believe that the goal is just satisfying your users. Nothing wrong
> about it, of course, open source is in no way incompatible with buisiness.
>
> So your bet seems to be on cloud computing,
> This and the recent move to Google Docs instead of Open Office show that
> clearly.
> What's less clear to me if you are planing a buisiness model on it or if you
> are just following the trend Google is pushing for. It's probably both.
>
> Anyway, the result is that Ubuntu is going to be a Chrome OS like, and that's
> really sad.
>
> Decide what's good for the users in their place is a mistake.
> Internet ad Computer as we know them will disapear, leaving the place to
> devices without intelligence used by brainless users.
> The only right thing to do is to improve usability but not at the cost of
> functionalities, and, the most important, educate users.
>
> Computers are wonderful tools. Let's use them correctly. Many people don't
> want of it again : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel (something we had in
> France in the 80s, no wonder it never spread out).
>
>
> I hope somehow it will be heard.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@...cean.net>
>
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