Comment 885 for bug 1

Hi John,

What I meant was that some independent vendor could start distribute computers with preinstalled Ubuntu only. And people would buy it not because of the price, but because of the absence of annoying licensing control and lots of other good things like performance, security, etc. When I was looking for a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled I would buy one even if it would be more expensive then M$ based, just because it is what I need plus correctly configured drivers.

At the place where I work no M$ can be found among hundreds of desktops and servers - only nix-based systems. At my own laptops I have dual boot, the same as you described, just because I have to work with couple of .net and java_for_M$_which_can_not_run_under_wine applications.

BTW, some of the European countries governments and educational institutions switching completely to open source linux.

Cheers,
Max.