The things one learns...

[tek_heretik]

Re: Kwheezy, it has all good intentions except it's loaded with proprietary corporate-ware, etc, and I find the artwork disturbing, black and pink, blech, that's why I installed a minimal command line Debian, then kde-standard, the rest is history.

It would make a good KDE alternative for noobie-ish people but the first Debian under the hood glitch that rears its ugly head, they'll be lost, I will admit the *buntus created a VERY user friendly set of distros, but not being able to troubleshoot and tinker makes your brain go soft, lol, neurologists say if you keep your brain busy with puzzles and teasers, your mental sharpness and health lasts longer in to old age, I like the challenge.

[Feathers McGraw]

Greygeek, what are the differences between KWheezy and Kubuntu?

How are you getting on with it?

[GreyGeek]

LOL. I often feel that Mark tries to "thwarte" the true goals of free and open source software

From the moment he announced that 12.04 was going to a 5 year LTS and he was dropping Kubuntu and other spinoffs it became clear to me that he was gearing up for a single distro running his own desktop gui and employing drivers that are specific to Ubuntu. That is the beginning of a walled garden which would "thwarte" the goals of FOSS, IMO.

At the risk of sounding 'tinfoil hat', his slow creep towards proprietary is the reason I re-adopted Debian now, not waiting for the bomb to drop, besides, I have a real problem with snoopware.

For that same reason, and because I believe that eventually System Blue will see the bridge out farther down the road, I have switched to a Debian Wheezy distro called KWheezy. My main focus with my OS is KDE, not the distro under it. But, if the distro under it moves out to an island or into a walled garden, I am not following it.

[tek_heretik]

LOL. I often feel that Mark tries to "thwarte" the true goals of free and open source software

At the risk of sounding 'tinfoil hat', his slow creep towards proprietary is the reason I re-adopted Debian now, not waiting for the bomb to drop, besides, I have a real problem with snoopware.

[SteveRiley]

Thwarte

LOL. I often feel that Mark tries to "thwarte" the true goals of free and open source software

[GreyGeek]

He also used some of the money to book a flight to the space station. It cost him only a mere $20M dollars.
I read an interview he gave to a German online publication around 2008 or so, wherein he mentioned Thwarte. In it he also mentioned that he was putting about $10M/year into Canonical. A couple days later that page had removed the line about how much he was investing in Canonical.

[Feathers McGraw]

Wow, who'd of thawte that?

I thank you...

Ugh.

[oshunluvr]

Wow, who'd of thawte that?

I thank you...

[SteveRiley]

I'm conducting some research on public certificate authorities. This evening I encountered a thing I would never have guessed. Thawte, one of the largest public CAs, became part of VeriSign in 1999, which then sold its entire security business to Symantec in 2010. Guess who founded the firm? Our very own SABDFL! He sold Thawte to VeriSign for $575 million, from which he got most of his money to start Canonical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte