Team, I was reviewing the Ubuntu Marketing home page and I noted this comment and wondered what it meant. “Ubuntu Bug #1 is our inspiration and its final bug fix is our final goal. Spreading all Free Software is within the interest of the Team, and Ubuntu among that is its main focus.”
What in the world does that mean? To investigate further I clicked the link which took me to launchpad. The following is a quote from that page. ---- “Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Microsoft has a majority market share | Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PC's for sale have non-free software pre-installed 3. Observe very few PC's with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed What should happen: 1. A majority of the PC's 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.” ---- I really don't know the message we are trying to send but the odds are it's not favorable. My first question would be is any of this really based on fact. I live in the US and without a doubt Microsoft is a big player here. I have no idea who the big player may be in China or Russia. Is this the next bug we need to start fixing? Let's not forget Apple, IBM, and SUN are in the OS business. Wow, things are really starting to get busy as the bugs add up. All of this flies in the face of Ubuntu Values and the Ubuntu code of conduct. Are we to introduce our self to a potential Ubuntu user who may be using Microsoft Windows by saying we are here to fix a bug? Without a doubt this is a marketing disaster of grand proportion and I am disappointed this level of child's play ever made it from the locker room. John -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
