Bravo!!! Well said. Words of wisdom from someone who has a great deak of IT experience and expertise. I recommend that this community ALL read this and take the message to heart. Maybe hen Ubuntu can move in a direction that will really allow it tochallnge MS.
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:30 +0000, kylea wrote: > Having been involved with IT for 30 years starting with IBM PC's & XT's > and Apple Lisa's, ICL Mainframes running card punched Cobol programs, > PICK and Prime Information and Universe, MS-Dos and Windows PC's, I > finally decided to try and kick Microsoft out of my life and off my PC. > Well nearly - I still need it for a few things as there is no acceptable > options under Linux or the only supported platform is Windows or Mac, > (thanks Australian Tax Office). So I use Sun's xVM VirtualBox. > > I took the gamble and stepped up dived into Ubuntu and 8.10 and 64bit. I > have put many many many hours into getting it to where now I think its > an acceptable alternative, just re-fix Bluetooth !!! and its will be > perfect. > > However the effort has been large, so I am going to give it 3 months > (??) and try and install the final stable release onto other laptop to > see if its really an viable alternative to XP and Vista and all that > that means. > > Also I am not sure if the 'community' is as mature as it needs to be > really break Microsoft's monopoly. > > Does free = freedom? Not sure thats true. One definition of Freedom > could be the right to chose from viable alternatives. Free is not > always better and paying for well developed and supported software is > not unethical. > -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
