On 2 April 2014 21:40, Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For anyone who hasn't noticed by now, poma's observations can
be
somewhat opaque to interpretation.
Mir was a famous Russian space station in low Earth orbit. Its
contemporary successor is the International Space Station. Mark
Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, made his money by selling his
digital-certificate dotcom Thawte to Verisign; the first thing he did
with his newfound great wealth was take a trip to the ISS as a paying
space tourist.
When he came home, he started the Ubuntu project.
This, ISTM, is what poma was alluding to, using a play on words for
Canonical's rival X.11 replacement project to Wayland, which is
codenamed Mir.
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