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Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too

Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too

Posted Aug 20, 2008 7:23 UTC (Wed) by lolando (subscriber, #7139)
In reply to: Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too by dowdle
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

> Now having said all of that, I must clarify and say that I'm not claiming
> that all Ubuntu users are stupid or that the Ubuntu distro is for stupid
> people.

It is not.  It's marketed as "Linux by human beings, for human beings".

I do realise it's probably nothing more than a slogan, i.e. advertisement, but I can't quite
give up the fact that words have meanings even when the words themselves are turned into ads.
As such, I've always been slightly irritated by that slogan, which seems to imply that I, as a
Debian developer and user, am not a human being.  Okay, so I've got super geek powers (whoa, I
master the command-line!), but super-heroes are humans too.


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Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too

Posted Aug 20, 2008 8:01 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Well, most of Ubuntu is Debian, so if Ubuntu was created by human beings, it implies Debian
developers as well :)

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