Posted on 04/19/2007 7:46:32 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
That is Clinton’s quote, whether it pains you or not.
Yes, that's Clinton's quote, dishonestly taken out of context by our resident troll -- you.
Sooner or later
business folks will start saying
Apple should phase out
their computer line
to focus on money thing
like phones and iPods!
Only the blind or crooked would insist there’s no connection.
The future is the past, most distors today find their roots with RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Suse, or a hand full of the first real distros.
What we really need for compatability is some kind of RPM / Apt naming convention. Every Linux is reall compatable its differences in how some people package and name their packages the sometimes throw a monkey wrench in the works. There have been many times I find an RPM for an app (say something like Kompose) for Suse but not RedHat. If I install with a force option it goes in and works fine.
I think Dag was trying to do this but several of the repositories for major distors disapproved
Only the dishonest on a libelous smear campaign would. As has been told you, if Clinton used the word "Windows" when speaking about the actual glass things you would see no connection, if he used the word "Apple" when speaking about the fruit you would see no connection. Yet he used the African word "Ubuntu" when speaking about humanity towards others in an attempt to pander to a crowd, and you see a connection.
Only in going with your usual dishonest removal of context, and efforts to create libelous strained connections in the way of the MSM, then you are right, there is a connection between Clinton and Ubuntu Linux.
I await you taking that last bit out of context, creating yet another lie.
For people like me
wondering what the hell's this,
I looked up the quote:
"Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu."
But what is it? Left-leaning sudoku? U2's latest album? Fish-friendly sushi?
No, it's a word describing an African worldview, which translates as "I am because you are," and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled.
The former president, husky-voiced and down-home with the delegates, gave it a folksy flavour, describing it in terms of needing to be around others to enjoy being ourselves. "If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most wealthy, the most powerful person - and then found all of a sudden that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans," said Mr Clinton.
The word comes from the Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa - and is related to a Zulu concept - "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" - which means that a person is only a person through their relationship to others. ..."
All you need is ubuntu
Obviously "apple" and "windows" are common terms, and despite your attempts to equate them "ubuntu" is not a common term. The fact that Clinton used it while in the UK, where the primary source of funding for Ubuntu Linux resides, is also of note. I actually first heard of his comments from an IT publication that reported them as well. Your insistence this strange and unique word used by Clinton in the UK, and reported by IT journalists there has absolutely no chance of anything to do with Linux is hilarious.
It is in Africa, where the Ubuntu founder comes from, and where it is a guiding principle of the South African government. Clinton just hijacked it to further his goals in the context of the labor movement, not in the context of operating systems.
The fact that Clinton used it while in the UK, where the primary source of funding for Ubuntu Linux resides, is also of note.
No it isn't. You and Stallman live in the same country, is that of note?
I actually first heard of his comments from an IT publication that reported them as well.
Because at the time not many outside of Africa knew what Ubuntu meant. They heard Ubuntu and connected it to the Linux distro, not properly to the larger meaning and use of the word, because they didn't know there was actually a word "Ubuntu." IT journalists are known to make mistakes.
Your insistence this strange and unique word used by Clinton in the UK
Strange and unique to you. You project all the time; quit projecting your ignorance, too.
BTW, you used the word "radical" earlier. There is an open source application development project called Radical. I see a connection between you and it, and it's strong since you're actually talking in the context of IT, unlike Clinton.
Insisting there’s no link possible when he mysteriously used it in the UK where Ubuntu Linux is funded is ridiculous. IT people across the world picked up on it, as have other linux proponents, you just realize BJC is the kiss of death around here and are doing the backstroke double time.
Claiming the link exists is ridiculous. To make such a claim you have to completely ignore the obvious context of Clinton's speech and audience, grant some non-existent high visibility to Ubuntu among the general working population, and think that Bill Clinton is actually knowledgeable in IT.
But then that's what you always do -- ignore context in order to libel others.
you just realize BJC is the kiss of death around here and are doing the backstroke double time
I don't care if Clinton were to exclusively use Ubuntu Linux. A certain user or proponent of a system does not reflect on that system in general. The laptops siezed from Al Qaeda were Windows, so would you like to tell us how Windows is a terrorist operating system?
Not only are you wrong about the Ubuntu comment, it's a non-issue even if you had been right.
I’ve never insisted there was a link, but you’ve insisted there isn’t which is ridiculous. You’ve never proven terrorists use Windows either, but even if they do it’s simply a mathmatical probability since 90 percent of all users use Windows. It’s not like they’ve made public mandates or rules that they use it, like communist governments do with Linux. Stallman was back in Cuba last month.
You obviously make the claim since you bring up Clinton in an Ubuntu thread.
You’ve never proven terrorists use Windows either
Lie, or a really, really bad memory.
Weakened encryption lays bare al-Qaeda files : Windows 2000 using EFS, the weakness of which got us the encrypted information.
US at least seizes Zarqawi's laptop : In the "My Pictures" folder, huh? That's Windows.
I've referenced those instances before. BTW, CAIR and Al Jazeera run IIS for their sites.
You need to apply the same logic all around. Either someone using an OS taints the OS, or it doesn't.
Stallman was back in Cuba last month.
And we know he's a radical commie. No need to bring it up, you're preaching to the choir there.
The Virgina Tech
gunman had "AX" on his arm.
Do you suspect he
was plugging UNIX
from IBM? You must love
the ANS thread.
Yeah well when Al Queda passes a law they have to use Windows like commie governments pass rules they have to use Linux maybe you’ll have a point. Clinton’s bizarre use of the word “Ubuntu” right there in the foreign country where it’s based doesn’t deserve a free pass either.
Clinton isn't trying to pass such a law, he just, according to you, supports the software (although back in reality computers and operating systems were nowhere in that speech), just like Al Qaeda does through use of Windows. Try to keep with the subject without going off on an incomprehensible rant that'll get you banned yet again.
Clinton’s bizarre use of the word “Ubuntu” right there in the foreign country where it’s based
It wasn't bizarre at all. You're projecting your ignorance again. It was classic Clinton in a country where the term isn't even used ("Look, I'm smarter than you, I know this African philosophical term that I can use to preach to you") in the context of the labor movement. You forget the name and it's founder are originally African, not British.
And you have yet to disavow your involvement in the open source Radical project.
Virginia Tech uses AIX. And he was in the same country where AIX was founded. It’s an IBM plot! His guns of choice were also Glock and Walther — OH NO!!! There’s a German/Austrian connection in this. The Nazis planned it!
Here’s some advice GE: You should remove your tin foil hat once in a while because it may start chafing. I suspect you remove it on occasion, as I have seen the odd coherent post from you.
If Clinton had used the African word in Africa, it wouldn’t be as significant. But he used it in the UK, where the company funding Ubuntu Linux is located. I’ve admitted it may be a very strange coincidence, but with Ubuntu being such a rarely used word for you to keep insisting there is no possible connection is ridiculous. GE OUT.
He jumped the tank when he started accusing Micheal Dell of potentially associating with leftist because the OS he uses on his home laptop has a name which slick Willy used in a completely different context.
I did the same thing a few days ago when he started one of his xenophobic rants about how evil Linus is. I decided that he has heard 100 times why he is wrong, he just wants to fight about it again.
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