Breaking the Camel’s Back
Most people have heard the phrase “the last straw“. When it comes to Microsoft, people will moan and groan that they wish their Vista computers didn’t suck so bad. Yet they still bought them, many even knowing Vista’s reputation. Why? Because that’s what they came with.
After reading my 2010 post, “John” added a comment to to Ubuntu’s Bug #1: “all we need to do in order to get rid of Microsoft once and for all is cutting their connections with hardware vendors [...] bundling Windows with the majority of new computers (most notably laptops) and therefore denying ICT users’ the right to freely choose their OS is probably the the fundamental cause of all this mess. [...] i suggest we should do our best to make bundling illegal“
Imagine for a moment what only allowing blank computers to be sold would do for Linux adoption. Yet its a harsh remedy; OEMs wouldn’t be able to sell functional products and average users would be forced to do something they just do not do right now because it seems scary: install their own OS.
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