Hi Max, Yes, Europe is far ahead of the USA when it comes to using FOSS MS has a real stranglehold here, but there are a few cracks.What we really need here is a court system with the same fortitude as the EU Supreme Court that will enforce our anti-trust laws the way they were meant to be enforced. MS has resorted to some very questionable business practices in its campaign to establish supremacy. It's time it was made to pay for them.
As far as your idea of independent distributors of hardware with Ubuntu pre-installed goes, that's a very ood idea and if I had the technical expertise, I would certainly give serious thought to doing here in the USA I think there are a lot of people in this community who DO have that kind of expertise/ They should give some serious consideration to setting up such a business, at least on a custom special order basis to start. Maybe even set up an Ubuntu hardware team with their own mailing list. forum, web site, etc. It could even grow into a multinational network n Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:33 +0000, maximus3d wrote: > Hi John, > > What I meant was that some independent vendor could start distribute > computers with preinstalled Ubuntu only. And people would buy it not > because of the price, but because of the absence of annoying licensing > control and lots of other good things like performance, security, etc. > When I was looking for a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled I would buy one > even if it would be more expensive then M$ based, just because it is > what I need plus correctly configured drivers. > > At the place where I work no M$ can be found among hundreds of desktops > and servers - only nix-based systems. At my own laptops I have dual > boot, the same as you described, just because I have to work with couple > of .net and java_for_M$_which_can_not_run_under_wine applications. > > BTW, some of the European countries governments and educational > institutions switching completely to open source linux. > > Cheers, > Max. > -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
