> never ever behave like those we lost confidence and trust in! Absolutely, because if we're going to do this, and I mean any time in the future, let's just turn tail and pack up right now. Because making free copycats of proprietary crap in the world, where you can simply literally copy (in copyright parlance "steal") the original for free any time you want would in my humble opinion be a complete waste of time. Libre software and open standards are all about preferring freedom of choice to horribly broken one size fits all proprietary solutions and they're meant to be free as in freedom, but not necessarily free as in free beer. Accepting broken proprietary stuff in a free system and doing everything to accommodate it's creators is no different from going back to where you came from. Such user should simply revert to whatever proprietary platform he used until now and save everyone (including himself) lots of trouble.
> From Linus I already read excerpt of an interview that he doesn't care how > many people are using Linux. Linus is my personal Jesus Christ and he's got that right. Like libre software? Great! You don't? Who cares? I believe that most users of libre software share a common characteristic of not being sheeple by nature and that people using libre software are generally the ones willing to get their hands dirty whenever there's a problem to be solved rather than just sitting around while bitching and waiting for someone else to save their sorry asses. The "success" and predominance of proprietary platforms simply prove that people actually like being tied up and locked down while maintaining their convenience and illusion of freedom. > I see it different because I want to use Linux but with the constraints given > by the world I am connected to does not allow a flawless use of Linux/Ubuntu. Well, that just sucks, doesn't it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GenOS: In Progress Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in NULL Project: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. 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 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
