Hi, IMHO, Canonical has contributed a lot to the open-source community by making Linux available to a large number of people. Swapnil said:
> And the "Linux desktop install base" is important bit. And that is I think one of the major contributions of Canonical. It has helped in reaching out to potential student contributors and others and telling them - Hey there is this free OS, (I did not even know the concept of free OS before the marketing drive of Ubuntu giving free CDs without postage) would you like to use it and maybe umm improve it in the future. It has inked a deal with Dell and others which enables Dell to ship Ubuntu Based Laptops and that is just great, because it is so hard to get Linux up and running with all the correct drivers present before-hand in any laptop. To give you an example of what I am talking about, these days Linux Guys don't say that use Linux coz its open-source and you can change it. They say, hey we have got these X,Y and Z features which neither Vista nor Mac has got. So, use our OS, and by the way did we forget to tell you, we sell free of cost and you can see the source code too. And I think in this transformation, Canonical has played an important role by reaching out to the people and enabling them to develop great applications. Regards, Deepank Gupta http://deepank.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
