Comment And why... (Score 5, Insightful) 147
And why is it important to have chat built into my spreadsheet again?
It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general.
No one ever got fired for buying... I mean blaming the NSA.
I will probably work great... except for the anal leakage.
Sorry, that side effect is patented by Olestra. You need to find another one.
If it seems too good to be true...
Wait until you see the side effects...
It must be comforting to "know" that a study must be false by virtue of the fact that you disagree with its conclusion.
Why not? It works for politics.
Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge campaign has raised more money than any other project on IndieGoGo or Kickstarter
Star Citizen is running it's own campaign, and noting is escrowed.
Why crowdfunding? Shuttleworth should just cancel his next trip to mars to raise the funds.
The point of this exercise was to show hardware makers that there is a crowd out there willing to pay lots of money for a non-Android/non-iOS/non-Windows OS, so they will get onboard and start offering Ubuntu Phone.
Not just the hardware makers... This also shows the potential buyers that there is a sustainable market, so it might be around more than a few weeks, unlike the HP Tablet, and a few really cool phones.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
