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["Randall Ross \(rrnwexec\)" <randall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My humble opinion: We'll likely not win over the mindshare of the
majority by berating the competition, nor by entering into a
feature-by-feature (or bug-by-bug) analysis of their products. In fact,
by continually mentioning their names and products we give them
additional free word-of-mouth advertising. The best way to gain
mindshare (and fix Bug #1) is to focus on what Ubuntu does best and
continually reinforce that message, politefully, and tactfully.


On 10-08-23 07:20 AM, Tom wrote:
> I have often found troubles with the new Windows in the first year of it's 
> releaes.   They tend to act a lot like alpha releases except you have to buy 
> them for a price and there is little or no support ("blame the user", "that 
> error message does not exist" etc) let alone efficient means of 
> bug-tracking/fixing.  Within approx the last year of official support the thing 
> becomes really quite usable but it really starts to fly about the time official 
> MicroSquish support ends.  Of course by then it is extremely vulnerable to 
> viruses and there are many known issues but thecrucial word is "known" rather 
> than "denied". I have been visiting a few offices in past few weeks and almost 
> all of them have brand-new machines with Xp.  Win7 seems to be for home users; 
> the type of users MicroSquish doesn't care about and doesn't mind annoying 
> because they can't fight back and can be easily duped by "tech support" over an 
> expensive phone call.
>  
> Really glad to have this space to blow off steam knowing that most of you might 
> disagree with the odd comment or be able to finesse a better or more precise way 
> of sayign the same thing but who understand what i mean because of having tried 
> an alternative to Windows.
> Regards from Tom :)
>
>

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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.