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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:06:12 -0600   
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   In ,   
   Bernard Peek  wrote:   
      
   > The paragraph you quoted has some clues to what the real problem is.   
   > The phrase "if the Linux _community_ want newbies to try out and   
   > switch to Linux" is the key. There are an awful lot of hidden   
   > assumptions behind that, and while they stay hidden a lot of people   
   > are going to be talking at cross-purposes without really   
   > communicating much.   
   >    
   > The first assumption is that there is such a thing as "the linux    
   > community." There are lots of individuals and groups that use or   
   > develop Linux but I don't think that there is a Linux community that   
   > "want newbies to try out and switch to Linux."   
      
   I agree, but isn't that one of the primary goals of the /Ubuntu/   
   community, if not the single most important one?  The SABDFL points to   
   it as the first answer to "Why do I do Ubuntu?", at   
   , and I'd assumed most   
   Ubuntuers shared that reason with him.   
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