<quote who="Howard Lowndes"> > Even on their web site they find it necessary to explain the meaning of > the word. All nice touchy feely motherhood stuff that says nothing
You might want to try telling that to the people who suggest that we could never possibly live up to the word, "Ubuntu", due to its depth of meaning and importance to so many people. That's something we wrestle with from time to time, and was a big question mark over choosing the name at all. I'm not sure I can find a useful enough comparison with an English word that has quite the same emotional and spiritual depth. We explain the meaning of the word because it is central to what we want to be. We could have used some made up conglomeration of suffixes and prefixes that had some techno-utopian bent and no trademark or domain coverage - but instead we chose a word that *means* something. Something worth sharing. Something worth striving for. Thanks, but "Ubuntu" means a heck of a lot more than "Linux Home". - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain http://2006.guadec.org/ "What's up with that word though... it's like something you did to frogs in grammar school." - Ani DiFranco on bisexuality -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
