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[»John« <JnS.002@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Maybe they should fix most of the bugs on this system instead of
tweaking with the icon windows (close, resize window ect ) before even
thinking about taking on windows....... what you run out of ideals? WELL
FIX SOME BUGS!

Surprise - the FOSS developer community usually tends to fix any bugs
usere find as soon as some of the developers doesn't have any bigger
fishes to fry. Actually it's M$ who doesn't give a shit about any
deficiencies in their crapware. Let me back that up with an example -
attackers keep finding serious problems all around Winblow$ that have
been there from day one and they must be well aware of that! I don't
think that's a sigh of any effort to fix anything, but I can provide
even more concrete proof that you're full of shit:
When the college where I used to study first started using M$ Office
2003, they found a bug that could be easily reproduced (and fixing these
is pretty much a piece of cake) and it even prompted to submit automatic
trace or something like that to M$ so that they could fix it. But guess
what - after years and countless submits from all over the place, it's
still there! Got that? But in the meantime they managed to ship a whole
new version (I guess the good old bug managed to get in as well).

Now, let's read some quotes:
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any
significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new
version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can
take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would
you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to
say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell
a release on that basis."
                     Bill Gates, Focus Magazine No. 43 (23 October 1995)

"Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will
move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more
copies of Windows?'"
                         Bill Gates, The Seattle Weekly (April 30, 1998)

This comes right from the horses mouth and explicitly says they don't
innovate or fix existing bugs (as long as not enough - just do the math
and consider how much could be enough with all their market share -
people care, they certainly don't).

On the contrary, every FOSS project produces regular maintenance
releases to fix bugs that gone unnoticed in the stable one while they
keep working on the next big thing.
Right now, we're closing in on finishing to seriously improve the whole
graphic subsystem just because the widespread usage of composite desktop
proven the old architecture to have significant deficiencies. Notice
that most of the issues this was causing gone pretty much completely
unnoticed by most people using GNU/Linux for serious work like
CAD/CAE/CAM or cutting movies like AVATAR, so by M$ standards we may
well have ignored them because none of our corporate customers have
problems with the fact that we fscked up...

So, next time think at least twice before posting such bullshit!

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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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.