October 22nd, 2009
This week’s Mandelson Award goes to…
…Canonical, for their fine effort in announcing the end of free availability of Ubuntu discs in a blog post entitled Keeping Ubuntu CDs available. Well played, madam, well played indeed. As a former part-time PR drone, I salute you.
3 Responses to “This week’s Mandelson Award goes to…”
Adam, they are only sending 1 CD per person, and only sending more on a case by case basis.
This seems overdue to me. I have known people to order a hundred CDs and then abandon them because they found they had to pay customs duty (a small amount per CD, but for a big batch it added up).
They also currently appear to be only accepting pre-orders for Karmic, and not for the current version.
They are spinning it a bit, but your misinterpretation is much further from the truth.
By graeme October 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
What is a “Mandelson Award” ?
note: openid doesn’t work
By ofaurax October 26th, 2009 at 7:23 am
What does happen the other weeks?
But you seem to be very hateful with Ubulinux, and this jealousy was thoroughly, insightfully analyzed in DistroQuatsch (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519)
A great technological achievement is going to happen in UBUlinux shipping making Sheep Eat obsolete.
If you look at the sky on clear nights, you shall see :
* white lights : they are stars, and , if they are fast moving, meteor showers (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower)
* fast moving BROWN lights!!!! These are install CDs, from the Kosmic Karamella release, with brown LEDs for people to localize and pick them up. They are thrown from a SATELLITE….
Caveats : this is a prealpha technology, but be sure that , with the Zsenile Zebra (Zèbre zozotant) release, the whole sky will be brown….
Hourrah, cornes au cul, vive le père Ubu (Jarry, 1898, la Chanson du Décervelage)
By Colonel de Guerlass November 20th, 2009 at 8:17 am