Hi, On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or > hand-held devices in your town! > Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere. > Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk.
Of course mobile devices are all around also here in Austria, but: Mobile devices are an addon - they help on the go and they are good for consuming IT content, but they are bad when it comes to "production" like Programming, Document Writing, Foto Editing, Desktop Publishing, Design, CAD, ... This is why I do give nothing on those news headliner telling that the PC era is over. Of course: A lot of people do use a computer (approx guess) 80 % internet surving or watching video, 10 % email reading and 10 % email writing. - Those are perfectly service with a large enough tablet. Anyway I do not know any tablet or smartphone user not having also a laptop or PC at home. BTW: I consider PC and laptop as both being relevant for this bug #1. > However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed. Quite the contrary! Yes, indeed! > Now is the time to really start working at it! Now that mobile devices and > hand-helds have become so common-place it > should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, > wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux > friendly. Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i > will be able to print from my Android. This is an uncommon use case. What I see always: Documents are sent by email to somebody who has the desired printer on his laptop or PC already configured in the list of available printers. At least 2 times a week I am at customers and I would never go to connect to a wild number of printers and after changing to the next phone model have to do it again anyway. I already reduce the list of configured W-LAN entries in my phone. Even if it would be just 2 clicks or touches away - I first would have to ask some person at customer side to what printer I should send the document xy, would maybe need to configure page size, make sure enough paper is in the trays and so on. Apart from the fact that on many network printers you first need to login anyway and have to be within the customers real network and not only in the guest W-LAN. > So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?" This of course is an issue sometimes, but I experience less problems to get a Linux compatible printer than a Linux compatible laptop/PC. > or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work > network. > Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?" I never heard of drivers I need on my client to support particular routers. Routers are running their own operating system inside and most of them alreasy run a flavour of Linux ASFAIK. I do consider routers - as servers - already to be taken over by Linux. Best regards, Martin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in Neobot: New Status in Novabot: New 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: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed 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: See Mark's closure comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834 ------ Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Ubuntu Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." "Ubuntu software is free. Always was, always will be. Free software gives everyone the freedom to use it however they want and share with whoever they like. This freedom has huge benefits. At one end of the spectrum it enables the Ubuntu community to grow and share its collective experience and expertise to continually improve all things Ubuntu. At the other, we are able to give access to essential software for those who couldn’t otherwise afford it – an advantage that’s keenly felt by individuals and organisations all over the world." * http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few. Additionally, proprietary software stifles innovation, maintains artificial scarcities, and enables malicious anti-features such as DRM, surveillance, and other monopolistic practices. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. 2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software. What happens: Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre- installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary. What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html * http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines * http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
