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Originally posted by ICQ
ok, now you've done that, , is this Comment from Canonical or from Billy Gates impersonating Canonical .. if i remember Redhat made some statement similiar to that a few years ago, but IMO even if Canonical Made tht statement, wouldnt suprise me since he's using a Windows Like installer in Ubuntu
Honestly, the statement is taken out of context a bit, and was made during the beginnings of the dell Linux kerfuffle. I think what he was trying to say was a disclaimer to stop the birth of millions of n00bs, especially the ones that will give up after five minutes of wondering where the "start menu" is.
The link is an interview by Andreas Proschofsky while Mark was bouncing around Europe, so it doesn't strike me as being a fake.
I don't think he'd deny that Ubuntu makes a lot more sense than Windows, say, but it's getting through the years of conditioning that makes it hard to convince people to switch.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
