A few responses to the various comments:
- It's no co-incidence that this message came at the same time that Macs
are banging on about the same issue :-)
- I'm not convinced that leaflets are the right place for this.
- I agree with Matthew that this isn't the right "offensive message".
I'd in
Quoting Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yup - boys and girls - it's unpalatable but it needs addressing.
>
> Manufacturers like Dell now receive as much money in subsidies and fees
> from companies like AOL and McAfee for installing crapware on your new
> Vista machine as they have to pay to
Alec Wright wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:11 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole "Crapware"
thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running
Windows
I expect people will start making crapware for ubuntu soon
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:11 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole "Crapware"
> thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running
> Windows
I expect people will start making crapware for ubuntu soon, with ads on
the deskto
Mark Harrison wrote:
> Yup - boys and girls - it's unpalatable but it needs addressing.
>
> Manufacturers like Dell now receive as much money in subsidies and fees
> from companies like AOL and McAfee for installing crapware on your new
> Vista machine as they have to pay to Microsoft for the Vis
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:51 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole "Crapware"
> > thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running
> > Windows:
By a strange conincidence, as I was reading Chris' message on my ISP's
webmai
Fair points Mark,
If you get a minute, pop this stuff onto the wiki - it'd be helpful to
add these ideas to the leaflet concept.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets
Cheers
Chris
On 30/06/07, Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yup - boys and girls - it's unpalatable but it needs add
Yup - boys and girls - it's unpalatable but it needs addressing.
Manufacturers like Dell now receive as much money in subsidies and fees
from companies like AOL and McAfee for installing crapware on your new
Vista machine as they have to pay to Microsoft for the Vista licence.
I think we ought
