<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Abhijit Navale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abhijit.foss@gmail.com">abhijit.foss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is an email I am circulatting from lugc mailist list:<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Hello all,</span></font><br>
<br><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">When I looked to buy a branded laptop, I felt much bad that I can customize a laptop </span></font><b style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">BUT</b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"> 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). </span></font><br>
<br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">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 'busien</span></font><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">ss' of foss in India.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">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. T</span></font><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">hey want me to buy ms only laptop.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>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".</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But in our interests:</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.system76.com/">http://www.system76.com/</a></div><div>(we do need more of them. Awesome site.)</div>
<div>-- </div></div>Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan<div>Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish</div><br>