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[PeteC <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>You can do that. You can upgrade whatever you want. You can have an
LTS with bleeding edge Firefox and Open Office. Just not supported by
Ubuntu.<<

I feel that, if ubuntu is going to fix this 'bug', it *needs* to address
this. I am a 'soft target' as far as ubuntu is concerned. I develop
software myself (mostly embedded systems), so am more willing than most
to 'get my hands dirty' and sort things out.

Despite that I have neither the time nor the inclination to spend a week
every six months trying to sort out why my perfectly good setup has
suddenly stopped working, due to a host of new 'features', just to keep
my main apps up to date.

OK - I'll stick with the LTS (assuming 10.04 delivers) and update the
apps myself (or find a different distro that isn't so obsessed with
change).

Joe Public will not be so forgiving. Since I installed 9.04, updates
have done nothing for me but stopping my wireless network working,
mysteriously messing with the UI so as to completely muck up my setup
and wiping out my thuderbird configuration.

Unless I was a bit of a techie, I'd just have given up and gone back to
M$.....

Ubuntu looks by far the most accessible distro and is widely
recommended. It just can't afford to throw away an initial good
experience like this....

Just promoting mature, well tested LTS versions (rather than the latest)
to new users and keeping the apps up to date in that would be a vast
improvement.

-- 
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.