From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>
To: evolution-list gnome org
Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 18:37:00
Subject: Re: [Evolution] restore evolution mail
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > For some reason Ubuntu
> > users seem to think that Evo is an Ubuntu app and that
simply stating
> > their version of Ubuntu is enough.
> Before anyone objects, I should of course have said *some* Ubuntu users.
> To put it another way, people who give their system version and not
> their Evo version are almost invariably Ubuntu users rather than others,
> but of course most people don't do that and shouldn't be tarred with the
> same brush.
Ubuntu fanboys are annoying enough to tar them all with the same brush.
As far as I'm concerned tar-away; Ubuntu users generally believe
Shuttleworth developed all that software himself and it is all specific
to Ubuntu.
I'm joking, of course,.... sort of. Nah, not really.
> Now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...
Hi :)
Ubuntu and a few other distros are gateway's into a very unfamiliar world for most people. Most people are not used to free-markets or democracies especially in
desktop computing. Biologists might have some understanding of separate entities working together but then they probably don't have any good reason to try alternatives to MS.
The lame, pathetic attitude i have seen in this thread is exactly the sort of thing that helps kill-off projects like Evolution. Try being welcoming and then people might take an interest in your project and perhaps learn a bit about it.
Regards from
Tom :)
