__/ [ 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.
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