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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I dont think you did any reading up on the mp3 issue or on the driver
issues. 

1. We cant ship mp3's by default because its expensive. We are a free
OS, windows costs at least €100 so they can afford to ship it because
its included in the price. So dont complain its not hard to install
(just try to play an mp3 and it will find and install the codec in a few
seconds)

2. You say "linux on the other hand has outdated, imo poorly supported
device drivers". We support a lot more drivers out of the box than
windows. You just didnt see the notification saying "installing drivers"
on windows. The main driver problem on ubuntu at the moment is graphics
drivers but there are drivers available but you have to install them. We
support a lot more devices than windows and most of the time they work
better on ubuntu. On the "outdated and the poorly supported" we are very
actively supported billions are spent each year by Intel, Novell, IBM,
The linux foundation..etc so that is a load of crap. Go read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel and stop saying ill informed
nonsense.  

I dont think you understand what we are doing here, we are offering
something free to world and if you have a problem with something you can
fix it simple as that. We have limitations to what we can ship in the
default distro but we put whatever we can. Better drivers comes with
market share. We wont ship mp3 codecs or any other patented codecs.

-- 
Microsoft has a majority market share
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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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.