On Saturday 14 January 2006 1:55 pm, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Consider this -- ``What is Guido going to talk about? If he's going to talk about Python, I am not going. He should talk about some _technical_ stuff.'' What crap is this? What do you mean by _developer oriented_ stuff? Do you expect Guido to teach you programming or talk about the proposed extensions to the Pickle protocol? Mark Shuttleworth is not a joke. He's neither here to teach you how to install Ubuntu nor is he here to sell Ubuntu. Why is he coming to India then? You have to be there to find out. Pardon me if I sound sarcastic. But these two mails really pissed me off. Mark has revolutionised the GNU/Linux distro concept. He has shown us how to spend a portion of 1 Billion Rands judiciously. You have no idea what he's doing in his home country. We have a lot to learn from him. Even if you don't like/use Ubuntu, be there to ask him how it feels to be in space. Regards,
That was a mouthfull ;-).
Mr. Shuttleworth is not just about Ubuntu.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/bio.html
should make good reading.