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IBM's new Ubuntu-based desktop offering

IBM's new Ubuntu-based desktop offering

Posted Dec 11, 2008 18:56 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: IBM's new Ubuntu-based desktop offering by jspaleta
Parent article: IBM's new Ubuntu-based desktop offering

> Did I demand that? I certainly have no standing to demand anything from Canonical. I am not a customer, I am not an employee, I'm not even a volunteer working under their management.

So, you have nothing to do with them whatsoever, and don't even know anything about them first hand...

> But I am free to ask questions, and they are free to ignore me...

...which tends to happen to people who ask silly questions based on knowledge-free prejudices...

> at their peril.

...yeah, I bet Mark Shuttleworth is changing his trousers as we speak.

Jef, regardless of what you've deceived yourself into believing, this campaign of yours has nothing to do with Ubuntu or Canonical, and everything to do with the vastly overinflated ego you seem to have accidentally stumbled across in the street and decided to wrap yourself in. Please, put it back where you found it and get on with your life.

Quietly.


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