Hi :) Yes, i assumed that people here do test-drive a release before really commenting on it, even if it's only as briefly as my trial-runs of 11.10 and Mint. LiveCds and virtual machines or even a LiveCd on a vm are soo easy and tempting that i can't imagine not trying a new release of favourite distros.
Now that i think about it like that i wonder if the different paths taken by Ubuntu and Mint were deliberate and coordinated. Previously i have assumed that they chose different paths at roughly the same time by coincidence and that Mint chose without thinking but now it looks too convenient that each one takes advantage of a niche left by the other. I agree that it would be good to see glossy adverts or on television and product placement but those things cost money. It is far far cheaper to ring up a local reporter and get a full article in the local or even national newspaper (or even a magazine if you are really good at this and get lucky) with far more surface-area giving more information. Ideally about 1 article per month is about what it takes before people start to vaguely notice. The trick is to not give the full story all at once the first time so that you have another angle for them to cover next-time. Note that "Document Freedom Day" is coming up in March so perhaps an article about that focusing on LibreOffice with perhaps a mention of Google-docs, OpenOffice, Calligra/KOffice, AbiWord&Gnumeric. Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 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 Metapackages: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : ubuntugnometeam@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
