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

John Pyper jpyper at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 10:11:56 UTC 2007


This bug is easily reproducible in Washington State[1], USA. I live in
Kent[2], WA, which is about 20 or so miles south of Redmond[3]. In all
this land, the bug is so critical that upon attempting to fix it gets
you shunned in your own workplace.

When Gutsy Gibbon[4] is officially released in October, I'm going to
send a plea to Canonical[5] to ship me 500 gutsy-desktop CDs and 50
gutsy-server CDs.

I find it my top priority to relinquish Microsoft's stronghold here and
give the end users who buy new PCs or build something from old parts a
choice and a chance to try Ubuntu. This will let them see that there's
more of a choice available, and best of all, IT'S FREE!

When was the last time Microsoft just willingly sent a CD with their
operating system on it to anyone without charging them something for it?
I've never heard of anything like that. Canonical makes it easy for
anyone to get a copy of Ubuntu with their ShipIt[6] site. It may take a
few weeks to get the disc, but once you have it, you run Ubuntu either
directly from the CD without harming your system, or you can get the
best out of Ubuntu by installing it to the hard drive.

[1]: http://wa.gov/
[2]: http://www.ci.kent.wa.us/
[3]: http://redmond.gov/
[4]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon
[5]: http://canonical.com/
[6]: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

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