Some interesting points have been raised up in this debate. I never knew so much about Mark Shuttleworth, never bothered to even find out either. It has further aroused my interest in attendinding his speech. I feel those who miss it will miss out a lot. But, again its a question of personal choice so I won't be telling everyone that they should attend even if they feel otherwise. I stongly agree with ur people's views that we should go atleast to support him if nothing else, after he's done so much for the linux community. I would also like to meet the members of the LUG there as I haven't met anyone from here before.
On 1/17/06, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
2006/1/17, Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com:
For one thing, Shuttleworth isn't a programmer or a developer and secondly, there's nothing wrong with people wanting technical talks instead of business talks.
I would suggest you to got to www.google.com and search for 'Mark Shuttleorth' before writing such ignorant comments as this.
As Anurag pointed out he has been a Debian developer in the past.
<quote> Most of my time is devoted to the Ubuntu project as cheerleader and chief whip. I've spent the last year or so focused on the [image: [WWW]] Launchpad<https://launchpad.net/>collaborative infrastructure, writing a fair portion of it and helping the team to define our goals.</quote> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth
I do not have a sixth sense about these matters. Neither am I interested in
Ubuntu or Canonical. Well, I would be if they bought Gentoo... Thanks for letting me know though.
<quote> We synchronise our development with upstream, and with Debian, and with other distributions such as Suse and Gentoo and Mandrake and Red Hat, on a regular basis. </quote>
Is it because you already got some Free Ubuntu CDs :-) Yeah may be we should request Mark Shuttleworth to bring some Gentoo CDs to give it to you :-) Or can someone burn some Gentoo CDs for this guy and bring it to the meet?
Well, simple point. I do not have the resources to go in person to listen to
Ubuntu talks. Instead I can just go over the reports. Once again, I say, I'd be very interested in going in person if it isn't about Ubuntu.
It is OK if you cannot come. You don't have to convince all of us.
Whatever makes you think I use Windows... I wonder. Hehehe, funny how people are so quick to draw conclusions and assume things. Just because I don't want to listen to Ubuntu talk doesn't mean I'm a Windows user!
Well, How sad :-( Ubuntu team are making great improvements to the restart alaert box so that is pops up the message "You should restart the system for installtion to complete". It would have been great fun.
*Screenshot 8: New Restart Notification Dialog*
[image: restart-dialog]
Open your mind to
other possibilities too ;) And wait a minute.. isn't this the Linux Users' Group mailing list?
The list name says *"GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India"*
Though this being my first flame war, I must say, flame wars are fun :D
Enjoy!
Cheers Praveen A -- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers