Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1

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Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:56AM from the sideways-looking-statement dept.

dargaud writes "Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame has closed the primal bug on Launchpad, standing since 2004 and titled 'Microsoft has a majority market share,' due to the 'changing realities' of tablets, smartphones, and wearable computing."

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Let me be the second by Zeroblitzt · 2013-05-30 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny

to say, damn you Mark Shuttleworth, now we have to worry about actual code related bugs.

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1. Re:Let me be the second by dotancohen · 2013-05-30 06:57 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  How is this bug fixed? From the initial bug report, reproduction instructions:
  
  Steps to repeat:
  1. Visit a local PC store.
  2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software.
  What happens:
  Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary.
  What should happen:
  A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.
  I can still reproduce the bug in its entirety. Nothing has changed since 2004.
  
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This is a compatibility issue by intermodal · 2013-05-30 05:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think Microsoft fixed this bug by creating a compatibility issue that prevents its OS from functioning on devices that people actually like to use.

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New Bug Report by SnarfQuest · 2013-05-30 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

New bug posted.
Android has too much market share.

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Closed Platforms by Adrian+Lopez · 2013-05-30 05:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

Microsoft is losing market share to tablets and smartphones, but these are shut tighter than the PC platform ever was. I'm not sure that's something to celebrate.

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1. Re:Closed Platforms by TWiTfan · 2013-05-30 05:30 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yes the walled garden of iOS, controlled by one company absolutely and completely, is definitely progress over the open world of the PC.
  
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Re:Microsoft has a majority market share by MLBs · 2013-05-30 05:13 · Score: 5, Informative

Not in my house it doesn't. 1 Win 7 laptop 1 MacBook Pro 1 Chrome Book 3 Raspberry PIs running Raspbian 1 Android tablet 1 Android phone 1 blackberry playbook 1 Apple TV Looks like Linux wins, with Android a close second. The best part is that this is all for one person living alone. :)
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but it seems that they're saying that in 2004, MS had a majority, but this is now changing and thus the bug can be closed. With your enumeration you simply give anecdotal evidence to this.
Re:Microsoft has a majority market share by SteveFoerster · 2013-05-30 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Both of you are doofi.

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Re:LMFAO, seriously? by xvan · 2013-05-30 05:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

I mean, I agree that their monopoly is/was a bad thing, but I find it ironic and funny that it was classified as a bug.
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