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____/ bbgruff on Sunday 31 August 2008 23:31 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Ubuntu Preinstalled in Poland
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>> | Today I saw this laptop in a computer store in Krakow Poland. Notice
>> | anything different about it? Yes, it’s got Ubuntu preinstalled on it. I’ve
>> | read about many companies doing this but it is the first time I’ve seen it
>> | in a shop here. I managed to snap this photo on my camera phone so sorry
>> | about the quality!
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>> http://hughs-space.com/2008/08/30/ubuntu-preinstalled-in-poland/
>
> Nice one, Roy.
> I trust that this one (also) counts as "Linux-in-the-wild?
>
> From what's been happening this past couple of weeks re. these sightings, I'm
> getting the impression that you might soon have to look elsewhere for some of
> these [News] postings of yours.
> i.e. "Dog bites man" is not really news-worthy, but "Man bites dog" does tend
> to make people sit up!
2007 was the 'year of Linux'... from major OEMs. Hugely important! Dell opened
the floodgates in many ways and I remember how 100,000+ people voted for it
while [H]omer wrote influential letters. Dell has never looked back and it
continues **expanding** this initiative (e.g. Linux on all motherboards and a
new laptop with Ubuntu targeting the developing market announced just days
ago).
It's right to say that news about 'yet another' Linux laptop have become
boring... like a dog biting a man. But now that Linux is winning it's
important to keep the momentum going and savour it. :-)
> The day might not be far off when you are posting along the lines of, "..and
> *here* is a picture of a machine for sale which does *not* have Linux
> pre-installed..."!:-):-) (or LOL!!! as Our Friend would say)
Microsoft is already giving away Windows for very cheap. They are desperate to
reverse Linux' gain of a critical mass (the tipping point is years behind us).
They try patents/Novell/SCO.
One thing that Microsoft explores is a free (gratis) Windows where profit is
made from subscription. It won't work against OOo and GNU/Linux and Microsoft
knows it, so it only experiments cluelessly and fearfully at the moment (while
the company's value sinks... because it's all a financial fraud and 'tissue
paper' money).
> It will be very interesting to see what happens to those "User Base"
> statistics, gathered from hits on web-sites, over say the rest of this
> year....
They look at an inappropriate and biased sample. What you need to do is pay
attention just to trend and not to absolute numbers. I hear that in Brazil
about 8% of the people use GNU/Linux and even the Microsoft agents from
Gartner say that Linux has already grabbed 4% of the desktop market. If the
figures in those 'Fisher Price' statistics (possibly sponsors by some non-Free
software companies) show Linux doubling, apply that x2 to figures like 8% or
4%. There's a big lie out there and no 'Linux fund' to fight the FUD, unless
Linux="Red Hat" or "Linux=Ubuntu".
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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