NSA: Please Turn off the Lights When You Leave. Nothing to See Here.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz shows how the general public can take action to truly protect their privacy using GnuPG with Evolution email. Read the details.

Mailvelope for Chrome: PGP Encrypted Email Made Easy

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz officially endorses what he deems is a truly secure, easy to use PGP email encryption program. Read the details.

Step off Microsoft's License Treadmill to FOSS Linux

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Bitcoin is NOT Money -- it's a Commodity

Linux Advocate shares news that the U.S. Treasury will treat Bitcoin as a Commodity 'Investment'. Read the details.

Google Drive Gets a Failing Grade on Privacy Protection

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz puts out a public service privacy warning. Google Drive gets a failing grade on protecting your privacy.

Email: A Fundamentally Broken System

Email needs an overhaul. Privacy must be integrated.

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Cookie Cutter Distros Don't Cut It

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The 'Linux Inside' Stigma - It's real and it's a problem.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Turn a Deaf Ear

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz reminds readers of a long ago failed petition by Mathematician Prof. Donald Knuth for stopping issuance of Software Patents.

Showing posts with label Virtual community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtual community. Show all posts

Saturday, June 1, 2013

A Kumbayah Moment: New Ubuntu Community Website

by Dietrich Schmitz

Oh let's join hands now and sing the Coke song or Kumbayah, shall we?  I am feeling so inspired now that (tout d'un coup) a new Ubuntu community website is open.

Isn't that exciting?  What? No?

Agreed.  I mean, why now?  Do you think Canonical Ltd. realize they have a public relations nightmare 'image' problem on their hands?

No, Let's call it major 'damage control'.

And yet, more 'window dressing' being applied slap dab by corporate in a failed effort to prop up a sagging morale.  Don't be anybody's fool.  Take a close look at the picture on the website and you'll see those are Canonical Ltd. employees.

Label this latest move as 'symptomatic' of what I have previously written about: Ubuntu is NOT a Community Project.

It's time for a fork people.  Power to the community, right on.  openUbuntu.  Rise up.

-- Dietrich





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