Today when I had a look at the buglist of Ubuntu, I’ve noticed the first bug ever reported to the Ubuntu development team:
Microsoft has a majority market share
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.
I hope that in a couple of year we can consider this bug as solved, and that Ubuntu will be as widely spread as Microsoft Windows!
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I hope that in a couple of year we can consider this bug as solved, and that Ubuntu will be as widely spread as Microsoft Windows!
As much as I appreciate you hoping that, it’s not going to happen. They’re just not there yet.
I’m hoping for some big companies like Dell, HP etc. to give the user an option when purchasing their system which OS they would like to have installed, when that happens I’m sure Ubuntu will be going like a rocket
People will always need windows for something. They would be better off selling an OEM windows License with the computer, and pre-installing both OS’es. (Or just Ubuntu, with a pre-installed VM-Ware image of Windows, with their license.)