On 02.04.2014 22:46, Liam Proven wrote: > On 2 April 2014 21:40, Ian Malone <ibmal...@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. > >
Long live the Phoronix! :) poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
