[ubuntu-in] Microsoft Monopoly

[Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Abhijit Navale <abhijit.foss at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is an email I am circulatting from lugc mailist list:
>
> Hello all,
>
> When I looked to buy a branded laptop, I felt much bad that I can customize
> a laptop *BUT* I MUST select a M$ operating system. And this really is
> like forcing us to pay money even if we do not want to buy it. Is there any
> talks before this post or is there a way to buy a branded laptop (like HP,
> DELL or a sony vaio).
>
> Thats just two lines are not enough. i think we should have a strong
> oposition. what i am suggesting is. Lets form a open source forum for
> business. If there is already then get their help, or create new. and have a
> strong platrform which will look for health of open source business and
> which will be face of 'busienss' of foss in India.
> When i go to our nearest mall and i asked sales person that i wll pay half
> price in advance but get me without os laptop they just simply declined. They
> want me to buy ms only laptop.
>
> I have tried to spread ubuntu as much as I can since I know about it and
have been very successful too. My friends love it and they are readily
willing to install it on their laptops. Bu the sad part is installing it and
running it. 95% of them cannot do it. They are so familiar to the windows OS
that they think that any OS should function like OS but just look more
beautiful. No one takes an effort to figure out the differences and adapt to
it. They do change to ubuntu at the end, but not after 2-3 day of a
"training session".

How do we love ubuntu? or any foss software on the contrary? Were we born
loving it. Very few of us might be introduced to linux very early in our
life and by some miracle it might have been our first OS (Although I do
think that having been introduced to windows first and then ubuntu makes
ubuntu look a whole lot mightier), but for most of us we were introduced to
linux someway or the other in our life. And luckily we became "interested".
Interested to learn more about it. Interested to be a part of it. Interested
to spread it.

So its the exposure that counts. Hopefully everyone knows how the mobile
companies and carriers in US are handling android. No regard for open
source. Might be the same happening to ubuntu. What we need is not retailers
selling branded ubuntu laptops but training and involvement sessions
(through whichever media- ads, talks, online). People need to know about
ubuntu and its culture. If the companies do sell ubuntu laptops, we will be
the ones who will go buy it. What about the other people who do not know
about these. We need to get them involved too. Ubuntu for everyone.

But in our interests:
http://www.system76.com/
(we do need more of them. Awesome site.)
-- 
Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
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