Comment 1445 for bug 1

Get lost. We will wait another 2 or 3 years to see if you are worthy
of our attention.

On 23.10.2010, at 07:30, Setve Gentilly wrote:

> You know Windows works on more systems than Ubuntu, did you know
> that......
>
> I am a senior technician for windows systems with many
> certifications, and
> they warned me about your type........
>
> Maybe Windows is the best system...............
>
> I will wait another 2 or 3 years to see if Ubuntu is worthy of my
> attention.
>
> Gentilli.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, »John« <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys.
>> I don't mean to be rude; I just want the message to be perfectly
>> clear
>> because we've been through this shit for like million times already
>> and
>> I'm simply getting sick and tired of hearing the same stupid whining
>> over and over again. Bad hardware support is always caused by stupid
>> hardware manufacturers and not the operating system in question,
>> because
>> someone needs to write the damn drivers! If you leave that up to
>> them,
>> they pretty much always end up spitting out some half broken piece of
>> binary crap, not to mention they probably won't even bother if the
>> particular operating system isn't used by what they believe to be
>> enough
>> of their potential customers. I guess you can see why we have a
>> problem
>> with that and every single operating system is gonna be plagued by
>> the
>> exact same problem until it reaches critical mass. In fact, all they
>> need to do in order for their stuff to be fully and reliably
>> supported
>> on free operating systems is to publicly release the programming
>> documentation (because writing properly working drivers without it
>> within reasonable time frame is impossible), but many of them are
>> simply
>> too stupid to understand that. Until that changes, we're simply
>> screwed,
>> because we're stuck with either crap that can (and will) stop working
>> any time or with nothing at all and there's absolutely not a damn
>> thing
>> you can do about that by yet another pointless GNU/Linux (BSD,
>> Solaris,
>> whatever) rant! So, unless you have some constructive criticism or
>> other
>> valuable ideas, please go post your whining somewhere else!
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>> 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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>>
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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