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Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the reasons-for-the-season-of-brown dept.

cj2003 writes "Mark Shuttleworth has released a FAQ about Ubuntu's Direction and Intent. It comments on the discussions of funding, of being a Debian-fork or not, of the strange names, and many other 'hot topics' relating to Ubuntu. In his own words: 'This document exists to give the community some insight into my thinking, and to a certain extent that of the Community Council, Technical Board and other governance structures - on some of the issues and decisions that have been controversial.'"

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  1. Professional Addition by Slashdot_Gandhi · · Score: 3, Funny


      If you don't make a commercial "Ubuntu Professional Edition", how can Ubuntu be sustainable?

    I am puzzled, don't Home Editions make money?

    1. Re:Professional Addition by agraupe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Professional addition? I mean, humans can be fast, but I thought calculators kinda put an end to all those professional adders.

    2. Re:Professional Addition by ettlz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoa — or, "Ubuntu Starter Edition"!

      I think we're on to something here!

    3. Re:Professional Addition by JPriest · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about "Ubuntu Reduced Media Edition"?!

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    4. Re:Professional Addition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You lose a little money with each one ... but you make it up in VOLUME!

    5. Re:Professional Addition by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny
      its nice to just see people being nice in the world for a change

      I am sure he will get nailed to a tree in the end :)

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  2. Funky Fairy! by jonasj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we are on the naming thing, what's with the "Funky Fairy" naming system?

    Funky Fairy would be an AWESOME name for Ubuntu 6.10! :-)

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  3. Re:Money Talks by tvon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So someone finally made a great distro out of Debian and it's a bad thing?

  4. Re:Money Talks by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but if I had done that my comment would have been well-informed and insightful, leaving no room for anyone to complain. This being Slashdot, I felt it was my duty to shoot from the hip, as it were, and simply fire off my post.

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  5. Re:I disagree. by cloudmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can tell you for sure that I'm pissed that I can't run Windows XP Home on my quad Opteron machine. Pissed, I tell you! And the lack of software RAID, which is clearly better than spending a few bucks on better performing, platform-independant hardware RAID? Why, if it weren't for the availability of VNC servers for free, XP Home would be totally useless.

  6. My Gawd ... Shocking! by KwKSilver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe you should stick to XP & VISTA. Else, what would people think? And lets not even go into the fact that as a Linux variant, Ubuntu is a member of the unix family. Unixs shouldn't be able to have families anyway. Huh?

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  7. Re:What a nice guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, but once you have the larger penis what's the point of the sportscars?

  8. Re:Maybe now by bcrowell · · Score: 2, Funny
    And what exactly is DCC? I'd never heard of it until reading Shuttleworth's FAQ.

    Debian Cello Conservatory?

    Desktop Cruft Collection?

    Dramatically Capable Computers?

    D C Cisnotanacronym?

    Don't Clutch your Crotch?

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  9. ObIndy by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    all those professional adders

    Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

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  10. Lets just hope we don't see by Displaced+Cajun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lets just hope we don't see a Hemorrhoid Hank release anytime soon.

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