On 26/02/2008, Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tony Arnold wrote: > > Kris, > > > > Kris Douglas wrote: > >>[...] > >> Is this proper Ubuntu-as-in-Linux cola? Or just because of South > African etc... > > > > No, it has nothing to do with Ubuntu Linux. They've just coined the > > African word. > > > >> Furthermore, something we could look at is making OpenCola for our > >> Ubuntu events :) > > > > Hmm, interesting! > > Hello, Tony. > > I think it's the other way around - Canonical adopted the name Ubuntu to > describe the philosophy of their project just as the Fair-Trade people > have adopted the name Ubuntu for their Cola. As I understand it, people > have 'Ubuntu' if they show humanity to others: > > http://www.ubuntu.upc.edu/ > > Seems a pretty good model for a Linux distribution to follow too ;-) > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 > Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 > > This is from the parish magazine for February (Grassington North Yorks)
There's a special word in the Nguni languages of South Africa: Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't translate into English but its a word that describes the essence of being human. "I am a person because of you. I am human because I belong. My life is bound up and tied to together with yours- not just with my close family and friends but with everyone's. A person with Ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous and recognises others as persons. A person has Ubuntu if he or she knows that our lives and the world around us are delicately knit together and completely interdependent. Caroline -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- --- London School of Puppetry www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com
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