back to Ubuntu 8.04

[dan]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 19:27:54 Michael Hipp wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:

>  > yet Mark Shuttlesworth
>  > doesn't seem to care, because his well stated opinion is that
>  > their competition is Windows, and we all know how the quality is
>  > in that camp.
>
> Can you attribute a quote somewhere to this effect? I'd be surprised
> if that's really their position since quality is actually the thing
> that would cause Windows users to switch IMHO.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html

"But rather than preparing to code for the highest bidder, the 
developers were coordinating their largely volunteer effort to try to 
undermine Microsoft’s Windows operating system for PCs, which generated
close to $17 billion in sales last year."

Now that quote is from the articles author. I could not bring myself to 
progress past the first page and a half of it,  it's a three page piece.

Kind regards,
Dan