[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

Alex Lowe lengau at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 02:23:53 UTC 2007


@Wayne (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/338) I disagree. It depends on multiple things.
The bug does not show up on certain hardware. For example, I cannot reproduce this bug on PowerPC or 68k desktops/laptops at all. However, the bug is extremely common on prebuilt x86 computers. Although it is reproducible, the bug does not seem ver prevalent on x86 hardware that is assembled by the user (my desktop, for example). On smartphones and other smaller devices, the bug sometimes (but not always) manifests itself.

I have a workaround as well as a patch for the problem. The workaround
should be quite easy to implement, but the patch will be difficult and
take a long time.

Workaround: Buy computers solely from vendors which sell computers with
Free Operating systems preinstalled. These include those on the
previously mentioned LXer page
<http://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14> and possibly in future,
Dell (on certain models). Strictly speaking, in order to workaround this
particular bug (Microsoft's majority market share) rather than the
general class of similar bugs (Proprietary software having a majority
market share), Apple computers are also decent implementations of this
workaround. This is not, however, a patch. It is merely a workaround,
because this bug will not manifest itself in our computers (and possibly
the computers of those around us).

Patch: This patch is, as far as I can tell, one of only two ways to do
this (the other way is for Microsoft to go out of business). This patch
will involve years of work from the full community, and preferably money
to spend on advertising campains. We will need to educate users about
software freedom.

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