the Douchebag Mark meme.

Now he'll not vote for you as DPL.

Will he make a second space travel? I haven't found any info about that.

If so, it's very sad. That's a pretty good example of what you must not to do with 20 millions dollars.


Saludos :-)
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One bad decision or one bad action has not the same value if repeated.

The absense of regret, guilt or conscience can be significative. If someone want to dig on one unacceptable behavior it's spected to care about the parameters involved.

It's not the same to kill one person than to kill more than one. You can find old religions saying "killing one person it's the same than to kill all the humankind", but that is not acceptable for modern laws or points of view.

The lack of empathy is more dangerous if doubled.

If it was just one time, I have seen 15 years old guys with higher levels of ethics.

We don't need to add more.

If we add a lie to the description of one person publicly, it becomes defamation, and we loose any reason, enlightenment or confidence.

We all have the right to say the thruth and we all have the right to not been vilified.

So he's basically taking money away from Micro$oft. Not a bad thing in my book. Having said that buttnut is a freedom-haters distro.

Alternatively he could have tried his best to make a profitable business, and help to dispel the myths that a Free software based business model is unworkable.

I'd say that would be more valuable than him just sinking his entire fortune into ubuntu.

I heard a rumour that Mark is still a member of Debian even though he doesn't do any work on Debian. Is that true?

He wouldn't have been able to afford the space trip or founding Canonical with his private money in the first place if he wasn't firmly in the for-profit mindset. Which, in and as of itself, is not a bad thing per se. What annoys me about this is that, while certainly legal, it's not a moral thing to simply replace referral codes anywhere. As an aside, this is more common than one might think. Services like mibbit or that Twitter client which got blocked recently did the same. They pedaled back at some point, tough. Canonical did not (yet).

I'm not defending the banshee decision, but even if canonical was a not-for-profit, it would still need to generate some income to offset the outgoings. So the fact canonical is for-profit doesn't seem to matter.

«Non sequitur (Latin for “it does not follow”), in formal logic, is an argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises. In a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is fallacious because there is a disconnection between the premise and the conclusion.» – Wikipedia non sequitur definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic))