The discussion about developers or marketing is IMHO obsolete as my latest experience shows:
I had two potential Windows-to-Linux converts. Typical home users with web, email, writing a few documents/letters + home office. The basic additional requirements for home office environment in these cases is multipage scanning and fax. Didn't either try the fax as already the multipage scanning was not possible in a bug-free way. XSane isn't either capable (tried with two different machines and two different all-in-one printer-scanner-fax devices - see Bug #580249 ) and Simple Scan scans wrong paper size (at least in german environment - see Bug #575432 ). That was the show stopper. Both had XP before and new machine came with Windows 7 and as they need to learn new OS and new Office version(s) I already convinced them to try it with Ubuntu. But they are now (back) on Windows 7 (and there is also a tool like Simple Scan). At least they are going to use Open Office instead of buying an MS Office 2007 license. It was bare luck that the MS Access application I would have had to migrate was bare simple - no coding involved so it could be migrated to Open Office Base (although only through a Windows machine with Open Office installed - so was not really straightforward). So if we have issues like those in Ubuntu these are first to be fixed otherwise it does not really make sense to do big marketing. Indeed it could have a negative effect because too many people might try Ubuntu who have requirements that Ubuntu cannot fulfill. All the advantages of Ubuntu are not interesting, as long as the basic needs of people can't be achieved with Ubuntu/Linux. -- Martin Wildam -- 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 a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
