Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Thursday 28 September 2006 22:42 \__
>
>> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ssotu3-gr7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> casioculture@xxxxxxxxx <casioculture@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>
>>>> Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh?
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5388182.stm
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fascinating. Open Source gets a mention everywhere now, even in BBC
>>> political analyses. This is a clear sign that the tipping point was
>>> some time ago. Everyone now knows someone else who's heard of it.
>>
>> Apparently, Clinton wasn't referring to the OS, but the African
>> philosophy of ethics. The article does mention that Ubuntu is the name of
>> an OS, though it appears within a list of examples of how the concept of
>> ubuntu (the philosophy) seems to have become popular in western culture.
>>
>> That said, I think a lot of people (who don't know any better) equate
>> Linux with Ubuntu these days.
>
> That's one way of putting it. For many people, Ubuntu is Ubuntu, not Linux.
> However, the word Ubuntu aligns with the Linux philosophy rather well; don't
> overlook this fact.
Who is overlooking anything you condescending twit? Its why the bloody
distribution is *called* Ubuntu. Duh.
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