Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent

Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent 242

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 03, 2005 @06:47PM from the reasons-for-the-season-of-brown dept.

cj2003 writes "Mark Shuttleworth has released a FAQ about Ubuntu's Direction and Intent. It comments on the discussions of funding, of being a Debian-fork or not, of the strange names, and many other 'hot topics' relating to Ubuntu. In his own words: 'This document exists to give the community some insight into my thinking, and to a certain extent that of the Community Council, Technical Board and other governance structures - on some of the issues and decisions that have been controversial.'"

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Professional Addition (Score:3, Funny)

by Slashdot_Gandhi ( 912342 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @06:50PM (#13708178)

If you don't make a commercial "Ubuntu Professional Edition", how can Ubuntu be sustainable?

I am puzzled, don't Home Editions make money?

Re:Professional Addition (Score:5, Funny)

by agraupe ( 769778 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @06:56PM (#13708200) Journal

Professional addition? I mean, humans can be fast, but I thought calculators kinda put an end to all those professional adders.

Re:Professional Addition (Score:3, Funny)

by ettlz ( 639203 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @07:00PM (#13708219) Journal

Whoa — or, "Ubuntu Starter Edition"!

I think we're on to something here!

Funky Fairy! (Score:5, Funny)

by jonasj ( 538692 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @07:31PM (#13708366)

Now we are on the naming thing, what's with the "Funky Fairy" naming system?

Funky Fairy would be an AWESOME name for Ubuntu 6.10! :-)

Re:Money Talks (Score:4, Funny)

by tvon ( 169105 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @07:45PM (#13708501) Homepage

So someone finally made a great distro out of Debian and it's a bad thing?

Re:Professional Addition (Score:5, Funny)

by JPriest ( 547211 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @08:31PM (#13708854) Homepage

How about "Ubuntu Reduced Media Edition"?!

Re:Professional Addition (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @08:33PM (#13708865)

You lose a little money with each one ... but you make it up in VOLUME!

Re:Money Talks (Score:4, Funny)

by ScrewMaster ( 602015 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @10:14PM (#13709392)

Yes, but if I had done that my comment would have been well-informed and insightful, leaving no room for anyone to complain. This being Slashdot, I felt it was my duty to shoot from the hip, as it were, and simply fire off my post.

Re:I disagree. (Score:4, Funny)

by cloudmaster ( 10662 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @10:20PM (#13709436) Homepage Journal

I can tell you for sure that I'm pissed that I can't run Windows XP Home on my quad Opteron machine. Pissed, I tell you! And the lack of software RAID, which is clearly better than spending a few bucks on better performing, platform-independant hardware RAID? Why, if it weren't for the availability of VNC servers for free, XP Home would be totally useless.

My Gawd ... Shocking! (Score:2, Funny)

by KwKSilver ( 857599 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @10:23PM (#13709458)

Maybe you should stick to XP & VISTA. Else, what would people think? And lets not even go into the fact that as a Linux variant, Ubuntu is a member of the unix family. Unixs shouldn't be able to have families anyway. Huh?

Re:What a nice guy (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @10:49PM (#13709601)

Yeah, but once you have the larger penis what's the point of the sportscars?

Re:Maybe now (Score:3, Funny)

by bcrowell ( 177657 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @11:20PM (#13709743) Homepage

And what exactly is DCC? I'd never heard of it until reading Shuttleworth's FAQ.
Debian Cello Conservatory?
Desktop Cruft Collection?
Dramatically Capable Computers?
D C Cisnotanacronym?
Don't Clutch your Crotch?

ObIndy (Score:5, Funny)

by sharkey ( 16670 ) writes: on Monday October 03, 2005 @11:49PM (#13709887)

all those professional adders
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

Lets just hope we don't see (Score:2, Funny)

by Displaced Cajun ( 20400 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @03:28AM (#13710575)

Lets just hope we don't see a Hemorrhoid Hank release anytime soon.

Re:Professional Addition (Score:3, Funny)

by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @04:54AM (#13710784) Homepage Journal

its nice to just see people being nice in the world for a change
I am sure he will get nailed to a tree in the end :)

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My Gawd ... Shocking! (Score:2, Funny)

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