Thanks for all that!

"The Corporation" changed my life. /s/Documentaries/comments/4c8r/the_corporation_an_award_winning_classic_mustsee/

I am all for open-science, decentralization, and of course open-source. I also believe it's possible to be open and make a living (ie. be a "capitalist") with a good product or service. That's why if I was actually organized I'd have finished my first draft and would be establishing my /s/GlossedAndProfound production management thing, as transparently as possible. Ideally this would earn and guarantee trust and support. It's all a nice idea, but first I need to have a product to stand behind. And stop my SaidIt and current events addicion.

" Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity." It is often translated as "I am because we are," or "humanity towards others," or in Xhosa, "umntu ngumntu ngabantu" but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity." In Southern Africa, it has come to be used as a contested term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic, or ideology, also known as Ubuntuism propagated in the Africanisation process of these countries during the 1980s and 1990s. " ~ Wikipedia

I don't know enough about the Ubuntu Canonical thing to speak extensively on it. I know that I don't like some of the directions they've taken, even if some of them seem to make a little sense. IMO they've sold out, but they're better than Microsoft.

Worse is how the giant corporations like Microsoft are infiltrating all the open-source organizations and taking over GitHub, etc.