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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 11:09 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> Sarah is a 25-year-old local government employee who took part in one of
> our user tests last year. She happened to encounter the page in the
> Ubuntu Help that talks about just that, beginning "Ubuntu is a community
> developed operating system". She looked at us incredulously. "To be
> honest I think of that as PR talk ... It appeals to people. I wouldn't
> have any technological understanding to that, if there is one."
> 
> So, let's make something that doesn't appeal just to those who read OMG
> Ubuntu. Let's go make something Sarah would trust.

Well, it's not just PR talk, it's the way we work, it's what we are. I
don't know what you are proposing exactly, so I guess I will repeat
myself. 

*We are not Apple* we are *Ubuntu*. We do things in a Ubuntu way, not in
an Apple way. We are shipping on October 10th. We met and in fact
exceeded some aggressive goals for Maverick, and we will go on to
iterate the software center in the future.

Cheers, Rick