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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

I think the idea about Cannonical selling hardware with Ubuntu tailored to it is 
not such a bad idea.  There seems to be a gap in the market at local level.  
Dell and others sell machines with Ubuntu pre-installed and there are a lot of 
Dell machines being sold in computer shops locally but sadly none of the Ubuntu 
Dells are on display and the sales staff are clueless.  Perhaps getting a 
smaller distributor /OEM might make a difference?  Perhaps getting a local shop 
to have a specialty section or something might help?  


The original suggestion from Torpedolos seemed based on a few widespread 
mis-conceptions.  Apple is growing but Ubuntu is almost certainly growing faster 
but is starting from a smaller market share.  Apple are highly visible and spend 
a fortune on PR and advertising.  Ubuntu just gets on mostly by word-of-mouth.  
I doubt Apple costs less to develop as a lot of Ubuntu is developed for free, 
certainly a lot of the bug-squad work for free.  Do we really know if Apple's OS 
is lighter and faster than Ubuntu?  I have found installing Ubuntu on different 
machines makes Ubuntu look and feel quite different, especially on machines that 
have bluetooth devices or wireless or both.  Sure there are usually 1 or 2 
things that need to be tweaked but usually on almost all hardware it seems to 
set-up just fine.  Out of 4 recent machines 2 didn't need any tweaking to get 
hardware working although i swapped the window buttons back to the Windows side 
rather than the Mac side.  1 machine needed to have "cheese" installed but then 
intgrated the web-cam into all appropriate apps without any further agro.  Just 
my own home-machine happens to be awkward with 10.04 for some reason but was/is 
fine with 9.04.  Oh and i never have been good at setting up network printers on 
any OS.

Still there is clearly a big gap there in local stores.

Regards from
Tom :)

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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.