Yes, there is, but you have to admit, it’s the most usable (non-Microsoft-patent-agreement-mark-of-the-beast) and marketed distro. I’ve tried many and continue to try others but Ubuntu is the only one I roll out to others of all ages.

Regarding Google: “It’s a nice brand, but it typically just buys most of its software (other companies) and sticks it’s valuable labels on them. That’s not inspirational at all.”

Not inspirational? It has a repo for Linux software, the positives you mentioned, and it has given us a lot of goodies for free. Sure, there’s always marketing and advertisements around, and of course they’re making money off of what they’re giving to us but how many other companies like Google offer so much? I would argue that Google is an inspiration to us all, excluding censorship in China but Microsoft and Yahoo and other big names are also guilty of that.

Regarding Digg: Yes, it’s a crap site now for the reasons you mentioned, but it was glorious watching you post there and fight the good FOSS fight, it got pretty crazy after awhile with people attacking you verbally and some even using your photo to mock you, which I thought was in very poor taste, but this is what Digg has become, it’s like the MySpace of news sites, a bunch of vermin kids who know little about tech mixed with companies paying people to post and digg.

Keep up the excellent work with BoycottNovell.. looking forward to a #boycottnovell Freenode IRC channel.

Yes, there is, but you have to admit, it’s the most usable (non-Microsoft-patent-agreement-mark-of-the-beast) and marketed distro. I’ve tried many and continue to try others but Ubuntu is the only one I roll out to others of all ages.

Regarding Google: “It’s a nice brand, but it typically just buys most of its software (other companies) and sticks it’s valuable labels on them. That’s not inspirational at all.”

Not inspirational? It has a repo for Linux software, the positives you mentioned, and it has given us a lot of goodies for free. Sure, there’s always marketing and advertisements around, and of course they’re making money off of what they’re giving to us but how many other companies like Google offer so much? I would argue that Google is an inspiration to us all, excluding censorship in China but Microsoft and Yahoo and other big names are also guilty of that.

Regarding Digg: Yes, it’s a crap site now for the reasons you mentioned, but it was glorious watching you post there and fight the good FOSS fight, it got pretty crazy after awhile with people attacking you verbally and some even using your photo to mock you, which I thought was in very poor taste, but this is what Digg has become, it’s like the MySpace of news sites, a bunch of vermin kids who know little about tech mixed with companies paying people to post and digg.

Keep up the excellent work with BoycottNovell.. looking forward to a #boycottnovell Freenode IRC channel.