Even jumping on a hand grenade isn't altruism if the user did it to either feel superior or prevent a feeling of guilt. To be altruistic one has to act without feeling. Otherwise self preservation is always the motivating factor.

If he left smiling, he received satisfaction. Therefore it is a selfish act. If you can show me how the person approached it without the intent of feeling satisfied with his actions, you have made an argument for altruism. Otherwise you have simply argued to my point.

Altruism doesn't exist. This has been debated before and there is no proof that altruism is anything other than misdirection. This would be an actual story if they could support a claim that altruism exists. But this is just another report from the desk of Captain Obvious.

Strict enforcement of intellectual property laws is what open source is all about!

Ah that's actually kind of funny. Work requires me to type that way, so I just do it everywhere. Sorry to hog the screen space.

And yours does nothing to contribute.
Please see my response to jones_supra.
This is not about Unity.

Your myopic view of reasons people dislike Ubuntu has apparently blinded you to the rest of the comment and respones to others'.
If you read the whole comment you would see that I like Unity, but it was too unstable.
I tried to stick it out, but the entire culture shift from it should "just work" to "let's try this" is unacceptable in my case.
So I didn't even bother to give enough time to learning how to make Unity work for me.
I wish it wasn't so and I could use the shiny new interface.
I don't currently have the time to transition to Gnome 3 and really appreciate the Debian team allowing Gnome Classic to stay integrated by default.

And please don't call my comment, generic.
From my perspective your comment happens to be the generic "I'm too cool for you, let me show you how you do what you do with arrogant sarcasm" comment.
Comments and responses should move the conversation along instead of simply attacking the opinion or character of the poster.

Technically, I believes it qualifies as a manifesto.
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto.

But it is a bit of a stretch as I am not *intending* to change other people's opinions.
I'm just point out why I feel this way in case anyone from Canonical is actually reading this.
The future will change my circumstances and I am confident at some point Debian will no longer meet my needs... again.
In that case, it is in my best interest to have more open source options that bind closely to the workstyle I choose and the education I have obtained.

But good points it does make. Points that should be in taken into consideration and investigated.
Such as, what negative impact does the further industrialization required for these families to earn the 10k required place upon the environment?
What impact does it have on the mental health of an individual, the violence in a community, the additional reources required of a nation?

Both of "the wings" tend to think like this. It is generally the moderates who think about others.

Or freezing to death... I know dramatic, but while were at it.

ID10t.. I meant to say General Theory of Worditivity. I'm just as smooth with the ladies.

I think this requires a Special and Relative Theory of Worditivity because "I'm sorry," means less to me than, "I am so very sorry," but the relationship changes as the apology increases in size.

If I had any mod points left I would award them to you.
Instead... please, accept all of the internets I have acquired.

You are correct.
I can find a bunch of small glitches.
There is not an operating system on this planet that does not have a bunch of small glitches with its implementation of a desktop.
But Unity and Gnome 3.0 seems to have some large ones that greatly affect me in a personal way and have such influenced my personal choice.

But I think you are either riding my coat tails to point out a personal vendetta or missed the point entirely.

I changed because of the "let's try this" attitude of Ubuntu.
The reason I use Linux is a professional one.
And as such I cannot change my display manager or office suite or SQL service et cetera on a whim.
Ubuntu has gotten too into trying to be bleeding edge instead of focusing on the "just works" mentality.
Debian moves much slower and allows significant time and options when implementing software transitions.
Meanwhile, it has caught up on the whole 802.11 thing and now seems to "just work" no matter what I put it on.
When previously, my personal pain point was wifi stability came at a cost of significant hours spent configuring it.

I am a computing professional, not a professional using a computer.
Everything for me is "where can I get the best deal on a time/dollar trade off?"
And for me, that happens to be using a Linux OS (and Debian for the time being).

I had already moved off Ubuntu and back to Debian.
That whole switch to Unity kinda irked me.
So I did something about, and now I am back in trusty 'ole Gnome Classic.

And no, I'm not afraid of or against change.
I actually really like the new version of Gnome and was getting used to Unity.
But I use my computers for work day in and day out.
And neither of those desktops are near stable enough for what I do.
Both frequently become unresponsive and leave me unable to navigate apps.
Then I have to go into a console with alt+f(x) and kill the display manager or log out and back in.
Which doesn't look good to executives when you are attempting to demonstrate new products.

And yes, I am more than competent enought to install Gnome Classic in Ubuntu.
But the only reason I ever switched to Ubuntu was for the quick and dirty wireless support.
With Wheezy, all my wireless woes seem to have past and I'm not constantly burdened by a "let's try this" mentality.
My desktop "just works" again.
Heh, kinda funny I switched to the core distribution from Ubuntu so the thing would "just work".