Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Dell Launches Consumer Advertising for Ubuntu Linux PCs
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> | It?s one small step for Dell and consumer Linux ? and one giant leap for
> | Canonical?s Ubuntu Linux efforts. Specifically, Dell is spending
> | advertising dollars to promote PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. The
> | move has significant implications for the business world as well. Here?s
> | why.
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> | First, some details about the advertisement. Many many U.S. newspapers
> | on Sunday, October 12, included a multi-page Dell flier. Among the many
> | products advertised was the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, a low-cost
> | sub-notebook designed for email and Web browsing.
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> http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/13
dell-launches-consumer-advertising-for-ubuntu-linux-pcs/
Everyone I talk to is saying Linux has gone mainstream because
they can find it in local stores like Currys, Littlewoods, PCWorld,
Maplin etc..
The estimate is 4% of the machines are Linux.
The strict definition of mainstream is 7% marketshare.
For that, if you add all the electronics goods such as
flat TVs, DVD recorders, routers, MP3 players etc, then
Linux probably has more than 7% of the market share
and the modern high street electronics goods market
would not exist were it not for Linux.
Putting out public ads is a big step,
but I think the real challenge for tomorrow is to take
down all the barriers between devices communicating.
Linux companies need to get together and create communications
open source sub-systems between devices so that content
can transfer between systems and that there is storage
space for content between devices.
For example a flat TV should be able to record and store
stuff and then forward it to your MP4 player using a
USB connection. Likewise, stuff on your MP4 player should
be transferrable to the flat TV.
For about $10, you get about 8Gb. Thats a lot of storage for this
kind of stuff.
Linux companies should get together and hold meetings about
standards in data communications hardware, data storage, forwarding
of data and the like so that some basic functionalities can
be dropped into products at lowest practical cost for the widest
gain of all those that want to make their devices connectable
without having to go to closed source companies like micoshaft
for permission to start this kind of integration work.
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