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[Martin Wildam <mwildam@xxxxxxxxx>]

The discussion about developers or marketing is IMHO obsolete as my
latest experience shows:

I had two potential Windows-to-Linux converts. Typical home users with
web, email, writing a few documents/letters + home office. The basic
additional requirements for home office environment in these cases is
multipage scanning and fax. Didn't either try the fax as already the
multipage scanning was not possible in a bug-free way.

XSane isn't either capable (tried with two different machines and two
different all-in-one printer-scanner-fax devices - see Bug #580249 )
and Simple Scan scans wrong paper size (at least in german environment
- see Bug #575432 ). That was the show stopper. Both had XP before and
new machine came with Windows 7 and as they need to learn new OS and
new Office version(s) I already convinced them to try it with Ubuntu.
But they are now (back) on Windows 7 (and there is also a tool like
Simple Scan). At least they are going to use Open Office instead of
buying an MS Office 2007 license.

It was bare luck that the MS Access application I would have had to
migrate was bare simple - no coding involved so it could be migrated
to Open Office Base (although only through a Windows machine with Open
Office installed - so was not really straightforward).

So if we have issues like those in Ubuntu these are first to be fixed
otherwise it does not really make sense to do big marketing. Indeed it
could have a negative effect because too many people might try Ubuntu
who have requirements that Ubuntu cannot fulfill.

All the advantages of Ubuntu are not interesting, as long as the basic
needs of people can't be achieved with Ubuntu/Linux.
-- 
Martin Wildam

-- 
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.