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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After all the critics on Ubuntu or it's community - I want to clearly
state, that

1. I appreciate the community A LOT! It gives me a good feeling of not
being left alone with the computer problems. And I know what I am
talking about because I experienced also the prior-internet times
where I was pretty alone with all problems coming up - I had a few
fellows in school I could talk about but that was it.

2. Although there are a few things that are very annoying, the overall
experience with the computer for me got much more positive since my
move to Linux and even more when switching from Fedora to Ubuntu.

3. Looking at the relations - e.g Red Hat having about 3200, Novell
about 3600, IBM more than 300000(!) and Canonical having just about
350 employees - Canonical should not be criticized too much for not
contributing enough to Linux as a whole (which I read several times
during the last months).

4. Of course I appreciate the work of ALL companies and people
contributing to the Linux kernel, Gnome and all the other software
pieces that are part of the whole Linux repositories. Without those
the naked OS would be nothing worth looking at.

5. If I would put all the time I invested into Linux with testing and
bug reporting or simply documenting stuff (even if mostly only in
forums and on my blog so far although it is my plan to do more
contributions on the Wiki) into money numbers, I could have bought a
Windows license + a bulk of commercial software - but: I and everybody
else participating is MAKING THIS BETTER! - This is the big
difference. With the investment you help to make it better. This is
very different from investing into license fees where you don't know
what will be done with the money. You help to make it better for
everyone else and others are helping you out either with their
contributions. This is true cooperation - win-win-situations. So
everyone contributing - be proud and receive my thanks.

-- 
Martin Wildam

http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam

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