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[»John« <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys.
I don't mean to be rude; I just want the message to be perfectly clear
because we've been through this shit for like million times already and
I'm simply getting sick and tired of hearing the same stupid whining
over and over again. Bad hardware support is always caused by stupid
hardware manufacturers and not the operating system in question, because
someone needs to write the damn drivers! If you leave that up to them,
they pretty much always end up spitting out some half broken piece of
binary crap, not to mention they probably won't even bother if the
particular operating system isn't used by what they believe to be enough
of their potential customers. I guess you can see why we have a problem
with that and every single operating system is gonna be plagued by the
exact same problem until it reaches critical mass. In fact, all they
need to do in order for their stuff to be fully and reliably supported
on free operating systems is to publicly release the programming
documentation (because writing properly working drivers without it
within reasonable time frame is impossible), but many of them are simply
too stupid to understand that. Until that changes, we're simply screwed,
because we're stuck with either crap that can (and will) stop working
any time or with nothing at all and there's absolutely not a damn thing
you can do about that by yet another pointless GNU/Linux (BSD, Solaris,
whatever) rant! So, unless you have some constructive criticism or other
valuable ideas, please go post your whining somewhere else!

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Microsoft has a majority market share
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid
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Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid
Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress
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Status in Tv-Player: New
Status in Ubuntu: In Progress
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Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid
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Status in openSUSE: In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux: New

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.