What’s nice for Windows users, those “afraid” to try Ubuntu, is that WUBI puts the Ubuntu OS 100% into one folder and puts two small files in c:\. The WUBI uninstaller (run within Windows) delete sthe one folder and the two c:\ files. The uninstall is total and all traces are gone from the active Windows OS. “100% gone” meaning all traces of the Ubuntu install are not visible; no comments here on the nature of recovering deleted Windows files.

WUBI puts nothing into the Windows registry and makes no changes to any entry in the Windows registery.

The nature of the WUBI install does slightly degrade Ubuntu’s performance.

I love the work you and your team has put into build a beautiful distribution. That being said I do have a few requests to make. Few people make quality fonts for free use and distribution. I’d love it if Ubuntu made typography one of its strongholds by introducing competitive fonts to the beautiful Ayuthaya, Monaco, Lucida Grande families available with Mac OS X. Ayuthaya is an especially beautiful font to use for programmers. A font that looks just like that would add serious advantage for people using Ubuntu for a lot of text editing work.

Other font families that we use here at work with Ubuntu include Inconsolata (which is already available in the repositories), Anonymous, and Liberation Mono.

Cheers,
Yesudeep.

Anyhow, I’m very very impressed with what the people at Ubuntu are doing. I personally use Gentoo, and am too entrenched to switch over, but when I’m recommending a distro for people coming from windows, or just wanting to try out Linux, it’s always Ubuntu — they’ve really got a grip on the whole usability thing. Another job well done with this one….

– J. Taylor

Part 2 :

You know it’s funny in a way that Red Hat is saying that personal desktop is made by a charity company.

Because last I looked Canonical was a commercial entity. The problem is that it’s a private entity.

Microsoft laughed at Google until they made there IPO. Red Hat itself was considred a joke until they did there’s and is using it’s IPO money to offset it’s bad decision and carve itself a big share of the pie with bigger investments then other’s , with almost 4 billion market capitalization , they can afford to wait on the desktop.

The problem with that is that they have an unfair advantage on all front , They can wait for the desktop and swoop in or acquire the smaller company who end up winning the desktop and they win against others on the server as they can trow a lot more money then other’s at it.

Since I showed you in my last post that the majority of people are not yet on personnal computers yet and that the market is only going to grow and double every year ( using the AMD chart ). That means that Microsoft Windows income is going to grow too and they will invest billions at holding on to the market with the OEM vendor and IHV’s.

The logical conclusion is to make an IPO. But not make a failed one like Mandriva did , but one with a
solid strategy like google did.

The first move would be to research GOOGLE IPO partner and get some of them in on the early deal.
My best bet would be to invite the Google people on board by giving them some shares in the IPO’ed Canonical as to give value to the company before it’s IPO day. Like Microsoft did in investing in Facebook
creating immense value.

Also I would play it in the press ( with real good paid PR press in WSJ and others ) tongue in cheek as to create fear in there mind and say : “that you agree with Red Hat that running a succesful charity that make so much money is unfair to those who help create value for it.” ” That since Novell and Red Hat have declared defeat a the end of the Ubuntu/ canonical it means that they leave a small 50 *Billion* market on the personnal desktop for you to fill , 50 Billion being 5% of the personnal GNU/Linux desktop market after paying for 30 + billion in investement , since Apple who as 2% and the ipod/iphone and is valued at 150 Billion it’s areasonnable estimate. You then annonce your IPO and name the people who are getting shares

- The Google People
- Cannonical / Ubuntu ( your community )
- Me ( details to be worked out of course ) With a cash Bonus of 50 million for the IPO now idea and strategy after the deal is done and Ipo done too.
- Other people Like Al gore , Nelson Mandela , etc …
- Other people you might have in mind.

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Here is what my crazy brain tought of :

- 50 billion from whatever cash people are willing to pay for it for starter , it could go higher as people start making the price value like it did for Google.
- Make shure the number of share is equal or higher to those of Microsoft and Red Hat.

- Once the high value IPO is done after 1 -2 week split the stock to 10 cents so that small investors can get in on it too.example say the share are at 100$ each you split them into 10 cents shares , 100 shares become 1000 shares at 10 cent each , people will make the price go up again but you can sale a lot of splited shares adding even more value and money in the company coffers , most stock market need a 1$ value to be indexed so it’s going to be adding another minimum 100% value to the company.

Now your on top of a company worth at minimum 100 Billion. Not even in the crazy number as your a desktop champs compared to Apple and Microsoft value.

You take 50 Billion from it and have a guaranteed Loan for 35 + Billion , that you can repay when you feel like it and that as controled vote by you , Split the company to 10 cents again and buy back the loan with another loan.

The 35+ Billion you use to Buy technology , technology center and developer.

With 1 Billion divided into 1 million just have the bank guarantee a 10 year paiement of 10% ( 100 k ) on a fiduciary investment of 1 million and hire/train developer worldwide. Make this into a contract that after 10 years the fiduciary account will become the property of the new hir/trained developer.

With another Billion Open Labs/service centers in the same City or close to that city to the one that Red Hat as office in , in the poorest center so that you have more space then they do.

Try and buyout NCIX and NewEgg. Seem unrelated but they have really good online hardware vendor sites with extremely good service reputation , this give you access to Hardware for worldwide labs , but information about what is selling from the inside.

I have other idea on the subject but that sums up pretty much the point I want to make at this time.

One more thing , since Novell and Red Hat are saying that there is no market for personnal desktop I would make the invite to there shareolders to make a stock swap exchange , for 1 share of Red Hat or Novell you give them 2 of Canonical during pr after the IPO , factor in both the numbers of shares of those two company before making the number of shares of canonical. You might end up with 10% or more of there company stocks , you could make a 2-3 of there shares for 1 of canonical exchange offer to Mandriva and Turbolinux shareolders too.

Just make sure you keep/control 51% of the share for control of the company.

You should seriously consider doing it now and almost as described , because everyone see Ubuntu as the Desktop king this days. That would send a real good message , after the quitting of Red Hat and novell about Ubuntu and that would make those people who think canonical as a charity gasping for air

You could always tell me how you rate my fiction by replying to me by email : moulinneuf@yahoo.com

And if you plan into turning it into a biography and stuff of legends

Also , it’s not really for public eyes if you know what I mean

reference :

http://50×15.com/en-us/internet_usage.aspx

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL

http://www.google-ipo.com/

http://www.news.com/2100-1001-229679.html

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=red+hat+ipo&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-19-007-26-OP-RH-NV

http://www.guykawasaki.com/books/crazy.shtml

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God speed on the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release.

Moulinneuf