[Gllug] Hi!

Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Mon Jul 6 17:09:02 UTC 2009


On 6 Jul 2009, at 18:06, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> You're right that it would be easier to go from Ubuntu to another  
> distro
> than from one proprietary operating system to a linux desktop, but I
> can't imagine anyone being thrifty enough to get ubuntu supported
> desktops, Microsoft would be the cheap choice in this scenario, and
> you'd get all that compatibility and users would get all their  
> favourite
> apps, so I just cannot see the case for ubuntu desktops in this  
> context.

Microsoft started giving away the user's favourite apps with a copy of  
Windows?

I believe Ubuntu will "support" openoffice, firefox, and so on..

/joel
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