Comments on: Ubuntu as the new sexy: could the idea ever be popular in its own hometown though?

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By: Max Kaizen

Max Kaizen — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:12:42 +0000

Gonzobabe: I agree but like anything in the commons, marketing dept.s will hook into concepts that have sexy appeal and very rarely is the ideal transfused into company culture.
YAY! thank you so much for the compliment! wish I had more time to write MORE

By: Gonzobabe

Gonzobabe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:06:55 +0000

I find that UBUNTU is a concept deserted by the people who created it, and embraced with great (and often naive)enthusiasm by foreigners on our soil, who want to help, and get no buy-in. I’ve also recently seen it used as a comapny slogan, and when I tried to interact with said company, was met with anything but a co-operative and communal attitude, which really disappointed me. We should try and convey that this is a precious, indigenous concept not to be exploited.

Excellent article, wish I could write like you !!!

By: Maximillian Kaizen

Maximillian Kaizen — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:14:08 +0000

Darren: Superb article Darren, I’ll reference it as a point for debate, I agree for the most part, and in some ways would love to gently challenge your finely constructed point.
StevenMcD: LOL, well in some part it is
Hugh Jacobs: Wasn’t necessarily out to raise hopes, in fact if you read carefully or even just the title. The gap is that ubuntu may have been birthed here but shunned & practiced only by very few, like “unsophisticated” rural co.ops and the pioneering tech communities

By: Hugh Jacobs

Hugh Jacobs — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:40:53 +0000

likewise stevenmcd

as nice as this article is, i feel that south africa has lost all concept of ubuntu. whilst this article does try raise the hopes of the people, i find it to be in contrast to reality.

just my opinion though.

By: StevenMcD

StevenMcD — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:39:44 +0000

lol, when I read the header I though you were referring to the Ubuntu Operating System

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:39:04 +0000

“Someone needs to point out how ubuntu is counter.intuitively one of the most progressive, enlightened and profitable economic models humans have experimented with.” – brilliant!

One day people will wake up and see, but we will first have to learn to let go and give freely of that which we hold precious – our own knowledge and ‘intellectual capital’.

Great post Max.

My thoughts on when knowledge becomes a commodity -> http://tinyurl.com/32r8zt

By: Maximillian Kaizen

Maximillian Kaizen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:16:36 +0000

thanks Nic – you’re gracious as ever!

Both social media uptake & ubuntu need to have their uptake accelerated here, we desperately need more empowered Africans to rumble and shake from the grassroots and know that the strength of the interconnected network is always stronger than towering tyrants.
Terrorist cells around the world have that well figured. You don’t need to be well-funded to be an unquenchable threat even to the world’s most sophisticated war machine. With social tech we scare multinational corporations into behaving more responsibly.

When we give a damn about something (like Zim) we aren’t as impotent as we used to be to change it, even if it’s supporting those who need to know they aren’t alone in opposing crushing cruelty. I reminded the class about that saying from Edmund Burke “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
The tools are there, and mostly free, we just need the vision & courage to use them.

By: Nic Haralambous

Nic Haralambous — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:08:16 +0000

Max – Thank you for a thoughtprovoking post, as ever. I think that Ubuntu is bloody sexy in our homeland. It’s really just a matter of where you are, who you are with and what you are doing.

I think that without naming it what it is people are slowly (or quickly) realising that the “do unto others” motto applies because if you don’t your screwed!!