[LINK] IBM gets hip with 'cool' Ubuntu PC deal

[Peter Bowditch]

> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:17 +1000, Peter Bowditch wrote:
> > > Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, has agreed to re-distribute
> > > IBM's Lotus Symphony productivity suite with its public Linux 
> > > repositories.
> > 
> > To anybody who has had the misfortune to try Symphony that would
> suggest 
> > that potential Linux users shop somewhere else.
> 
> Because you consider one package in the entire multi-gigabyte range of
> Ubunto distros to be inferior, you think people should avoid Ubuntu?
> 
> Strange.

No, I was saying that Symphony is useless so highlighting its inclusion 
would arouse suspicion in anyone who knew Symphony but didn't know Ubuntu. 
Would you buy a car if the advertising talked about the 17 airbags but you 
knew that 14 of them required manual inflation with a hand pump?

The version of Ubuntu on the machine back in my office in Sydney is 8.0.4. 
Very nice.

> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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