Old Boy wrote:
> Visiting ex President Clinton on a trip to England mentioned Ubuntu
>
> Id never heard of it
>
> But this article explains it
>
> http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=961
>
> Bill Clinton's international character is not in doubt, and in his
> Labour Party conference address he came up with a classic Clintonism:
> "Society is im****tant," he said, "because of ubuntu."
>
> Not quite sure what he was on about? Fear not. Our man with the iffy
> cigar-case explained. "If one was the most beautiful, most intelligent,
> most wealthy, most powerful person and then found... that we were alone
> on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans."
>
> Ubuntu, which, like many ideas discussed in Manchester this week, does
> not translate well, is derived from Bantu, a southern African language,
> and relates to a Zulu concept - umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - which means
> "a person is only a person through other people".
>
Is he trying to plug Linux without pissing off Bill Gates?
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