On 11/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Per Jessen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:per@computer.org">per@computer.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
JJ Gitties wrote:<br><br>&gt; I am migrating to Ubuntu because, the way I see it, if I am going to<br>&gt; use an alternative OS to &quot;help the little guy who is trying to make a<br>&gt; difference&quot;. Then by golly, it better be a &quot;little guy&quot;.
<br><br>There isn't very much about Mark Shuttleworth and his achievements that<br>says &quot;little guy&quot; to me.<br><br>&gt; Once you partner with Microsoft corporation, you are not the poor<br>&gt; struggling little guy trying to make that difference anymore.
<br><br>I think Novell paid USD211million for SUSE - not much &quot;little guy&quot; there<br>either.</blockquote><div><br><br>Okay. Well you are absolutely right. I think what I really meant was when I say &quot;little guy&quot; is the guy who does not have a 90% monopoly grasp on the OS, browser and application market. 
<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>jjgitties,<br><br>&quot;*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend.&quot;