This is actually not much of a problem if it is good bundlings. Such as a decent appstore... and Ubuntu already have a semi-decent appstore... and noone would complain much about a preinstalled WoW client and so on... not that such exist for Linux yet...
Make OEM:s able to share some of the profits from the software that can be purchased within Ubuntu, and that may be payment enough. Also search result revenue etc could be shared in some way. > > the publishers pay the OEM to place their app in front of the user. > > Pumping someone's computer full of crap nobody ever asked for - what a > gentle and natural way of selling stuff… "I took the liberty to dump > whatever crap they paid me to all over your system, sir. I'm sure you're > gonna love it." > > this is product placement, and it is only going to grow in the future. > > > That's just great, because everybody's gotta love getting his "computer" > bloated with crapware that is neither needed nor wanted right from the > start. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
