On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Srikrishna Das <
das.srikrishna@gmail.com> wrote:
My laptop came with linpus and no X.
Thats really great!!! And moreover atheros wi-fi was not working in linpus either.
They could just have put any graphical version or atleast mention in their website specifications for laptop. It just says Linux! Well, a click on shipit would have given free CD.
If its windows, they'd write Genuine ...... and also provide a link to microsoft.
Can't they write linux distro name and provide a link to that. Saves them time to explain what is being provided.
Laptop vendors supporting linux is just a matter of saying. Would they
ship Vista without half the things working? No. They'd even take time to
install their drivers on it.
This behaviour is because Linux distros are still not seriously being
considered worthy for commercial market.
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Microsoft has a majority market share
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Bug description:
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
1. Visit a local PC store.
What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.