Comment 874 for bug 1

Bravo!!! Well said. Words of wisdom from someone who has a great deak of IT experience and expertise. I recommend that this community ALL read this and take the message to heart. Maybe hen Ubuntu can move in a direction that will really allow it tochallnge MS.

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:30 +0000, kylea wrote:
> Having been involved with IT for 30 years starting with IBM PC's & XT's
> and Apple Lisa's, ICL Mainframes running card punched Cobol programs,
> PICK and Prime Information and Universe, MS-Dos and Windows PC's, I
> finally decided to try and kick Microsoft out of my life and off my PC.
> Well nearly - I still need it for a few things as there is no acceptable
> options under Linux or the only supported platform is Windows or Mac,
> (thanks Australian Tax Office). So I use Sun's xVM VirtualBox.
>
> I took the gamble and stepped up dived into Ubuntu and 8.10 and 64bit. I
> have put many many many hours into getting it to where now I think its
> an acceptable alternative, just re-fix Bluetooth !!! and its will be
> perfect.
>
> However the effort has been large, so I am going to give it 3 months
> (??) and try and install the final stable release onto other laptop to
> see if its really an viable alternative to XP and Vista and all that
> that means.
>
> Also I am not sure if the 'community' is as mature as it needs to be
> really break Microsoft's monopoly.
>
> Does free = freedom? Not sure thats true. One definition of Freedom
> could be the right to chose from viable alternatives. Free is not
> always better and paying for well developed and supported software is
> not unethical.
>