Comment 1375 for bug 1

Hi Kip,

I would like you to understand the following,

I hate Microsoft, I hate what they are doing, I hate what they stand for and
what I hate the most is having to pay hard earned money for 0's and 1's.
I love the Open Source concept and it should be the *ONLY* way to go.
There is NOTHING MORE I would like than to be able to use Ubuntu on all my
machines. I am constantly looking for Microsoft alternatives. I have been
in computers since 1992 and all my learned experience is on Dos, Windows
(Microsoft Certifications), some Netware and very little on Linux.
I am now retired and for some weird reason I am busier now than I was in the
past. I do a lot of charitable work repairing and fixing defective computers
for people who cannot afford to bring their PC's to the repair shop.
 Unfortunately 99% of the people have Windows installed on their PC's. And
that I can fix. I would love nothing better than to replace some of these
people's unlicensed OS with Ubuntu.
But unfortunately I don't have the know how or experience to do that because
I don't find Ubuntu user friendly (from a Windows perspective).

So if one of you SMUCKS (wink, lol) is willing to put the effort in my
proposed project, then I am willing to put in 150% effort to do this.
And yes I will become responsible for spreading Ubuntu on (at least) a small
to medium scale.

What do you think, can we do this???????????????????

Best regards,
Gentilli.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Kip Warner <email address hidden> wrote:

> Beautifully said Randall. You touched the essence of why the consumer
> zombies just doesn't understand the world of free software. They
> generally just want to consume and produce nothing.
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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> Status in Club Distro: Confirmed
> Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid
> Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix
> Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid
> Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid
> Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress
> Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress
> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress
> Status in Tabuntu: Invalid
> Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid
> Status in Tv-Player: New
> Status in Ubuntu: In Progress
> Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid
> Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid
> Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress
> Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed
> Status in openSUSE: In Progress
> Status in Tilix Linux: New
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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.
>
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