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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 18:04, »John« <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let me borrow the words of Matthew Garrett:
> "I was greatly relieved to discover that commercial software sucks just as
> much as Free software does, except I can't fix the bugs myself."

It takes a while to dig into a project and although I have invested a
few time for 2 or 3 projects to fix a few bugs, I cannot dig into
every project where I find bugs. I have to rely on others fixing it -
of course just because of time and not because of being impossible -
at least I can choose which projects are more important for me and of
course they need to be programmed in a language that I am quite
familiar with.


> Proprietary code is notorious for being a steaming pile of crap held
> together by truckloads of duct tape and the list of ancient bugs, that it's
> authors never bother to fix until it's too late just goes on forever.

Oh yes, how true! - I have written code that I knew will never be seen
by others and other code I have written with the others in mind.
Already the others in mind made my code cleaner and better documented.

Best regards, Martin.
-- 
Martin Wildam

http://martin.wildam.org/

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

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  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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  New
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  Invalid
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  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:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
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  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
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  In Progress
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  Confirmed
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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.

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