Comment 1597 for bug 1
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| houstonbofh (leesharp) wrote Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share | #1597 |
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On 02/01/2012 11:22 AM, Justin Force wrote:
> ... but please explain to me how
> a feature of another product (a statement beginning "Microsoft has...")
> is a bug in Ubuntu.
When one company has a totally dominant position, it creates barriers to
entry for other players. In this case, since Windows is the dominant
player, many vendors create drivers, software, and websites that are
only compatible with or tested against Windows. For example, look at
network attached DVRs. Many of them are based on Linux, but you can not
use Linux to view them as they require a Windows only plugin to decrypt
the stream.
Think of this as an upstream bug that we can not fix directly.