Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 15:46 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Freedom of choice is one of the great benefits of Open Source Software in general and Linux in particular. This freedom gives consumers the ability to select, without fear of litigation, what software they will use and how they will use or modify it. As a principal, this freedom is extremely valuable. However, a couple of announcements this week seem to indicate that market value of freedom of choice has dipped considerably. The biggest hurdle Linux adoption faced this week wasn't Microsoft, it was an enemy from within: Linux fragmentation."
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2005-08-07
I am hardly a rabid fan... and I also don't care much for Ubuntu either...
However I do have several family members running it, simply because it's easier. Hardware is well supported, their gagdets work fine, and they don't have to worry about drivers or virii etc, so they're very happy.
Ubuntu is stable, it's clean... and it has plenty of documentation. What more can you ask for in a distribution aimed at non-geeks?