Ubuntu, what is it? Some different viewpoints
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| The question: “Ubuntu, what is it?” can be answered from different
| perspectives. Ubuntu is a:
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| - a user friendly open source desktop, that
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| - combines the notion of software freedom with the realization that we hae a
| personal responsibility to improve the lives of the people around us.
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| It is also
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| - a set of developer and end user communities that cooperate to help novice
| users with their new operating system.
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| - an example of a successful Linux distribution that combines the strength of
| Linux developer traditions with those of the BSD world.
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| In the end, Ubuntu is to most of us a great toy that continuously stimulates
| the growth of new knowledge and skills. I wish you a lot of fun with that.
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http://opensourcelearning.info/blog/?page_id=574
On the other hand:
Overcoming Social Inertia
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| Social inertia consists of people giving in to social inertia. When you give
| in to social inertia, you become part of it; when you resist it, you reduce
| it. We conquer inertia by identifying it, and resolving not to be part of it.
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| Here is where the philosophical weakness of most of our community holds us
| back. Most GNU/Linux users have never even heard the ideas of freedom that
| motivated the development of GNU, so they still judge matters based on
| short-term convenience rather than on their freedom. This makes them
| vulnerable to being led by the nose, through social inertia.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html
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