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["David L. Craig" <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Towards Resolving Bug 1: Microsoft Has A Majority Marketshare --
Presenting A Template As An RFC

Allow me to submit the following document I just completed as part of
fixing a friend's XP-HE laptop for give-away to someone else as an
informal RFC that may be refined into a tool to help this bug finally
get resolved.  The new owner will be getting this in hardcopy with the
disks it mentions when he picks it up.  It is meant to be viewed in a
fixed font.

If you believe deploying something like it the next time you return a
Microsoft system someone has begged you to fix, please, change it as
needed and pass it on without attribution--make it as personally
composed for the recipient as you can for the best chance of turning on
the light within.

Some details have been converted into _Template_Fields_ in this version
to maintain the confidentiality of the original as well as help you
tailor it for your not-quite-ready-for-prime-time sysadmin.

Let the ideas for improving it come forth.

** Attachment added: "RFC: Notes To Include After Fixing An MS Computer"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1/+attachment/2821126/+files/New_Owner_Notes_Template.txt

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  New
Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
  Invalid
Status in dylan.NET:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in LibreOffice:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Seeds:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
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.

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