I actually do not fully agree to the what happens part of the description.
I would change it to:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft software
pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu, Mandriva, or any other non-Microsoft
software.
What should happen:
1. PC:s for sale should ship with a spectra of different software
pre-installed. Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Mandriva, OS/2 or whatever would be
able to exist on an OPEN market.
2. Opens standards should make it easy to switch between operating systems
without sacrificing support for hardware and software.
3. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and
benefits would be apparent and known by all.
4. Healthy competition shall make the systems and more user friendly as time
passes.
This is not about free vs. non-free. This is about one dominating company vs.
everything else.
One thing that is needed is open standard. Writing an operating system should
not be about writing drivers for hundreds of devises. Standards should exists
for drivers. Like OSKit or I/O Kit. Hince there should not have to be Linux
drivers, FreeBSD drivers or Windows drivers, just Standard Drivers. For
applications we already have standards, both de jure and de facto. We have
Posix, Single Unix and OpenGL. We also have informal platform independent
standard libraries like Gnome, Qt, KDE, SQLight and many many other things that
is very portable. OSKit may include a bit to much implementation and I/O Kit
may have licensing problem. A standard may provide som implementation, but it
should be more of a framework that allows developers to plug in code that is
kernel-specific, such as the IP stack. The optimal solution would be if
compiled kernel modules could be loaded by any kernel that implements the
standard, making them as portable as elf executables.
Even the functionality within a kernel could be standardized. For
example if both FreeBSD and Linux kernels was based on such a standard,
it would be easy to make a hybrid kernel, for example a Linux kernel
with a FreeBSD scheduler and IP stack. It could as easy as just setting
configuration in a common build system.
>
> 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.
>
>
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