Ubuntu doesn't urge enough users to contribute to OpenSource

Bug #37579 reported by Lionel Dricot
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Bug Description

OpenSource and FreeSoftware is all about contributing and fixing bugs that you find annoying, developping softwares because nobody else want to do it.

With Ubuntu, it becomes a huge problem because there are too few bugs and more and more users just use it and like it !

Users are no more in the mood of "I must learn assembly and C in order to be able to start a web browser under Linux" or "I must spend two years of my life to learn basic emacs text editing capabilities".

Users are using Ubuntu and loving it even without using the command line !

In order to solve this bug, I suggest to add manually a few choosen bugs in Dapper. I also suggest that we don't install X as a default. Lynx and mutt should replace Firefox and Evolution as default. In order to cope with the freesoftware spirit, you would be prompted to accept the full GPL each time you log in or you start an application. The login sound would be replaced by "Free Software Song" and the official documentation would be the "Linux Kernel development" book.

Aslo, I suggest to add a random kernel panic generator in order to practice debugging skills of our users.

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Baishampayan Ghose (b.ghose) wrote :

This is not a bug. We can't urge people to hack Ubuntu by introducing bugs deliberately. There are a lot of real bugs to be fixed. And if people want to help in fixing bugs, I would recommend they join the Ubuntu BugSquad [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad]. Anyway, thanks a lot for reporting the bug :)

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

the first stage of the install should involve writing a compiler, otherwise how will people ever learn.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 37579] Ubuntu doesn't urge enough users to contribute to OpenSource

Urgh, april fools in a bugtracker - :/

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Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco) wrote :

Hope this doesn't become a trend though :/

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Martijn Vermaat (mvermaat) wrote :

I think the suggested fix conflicts with bug #1.

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I admit that this is a bit lame... Well, sorry for that, I swear it's the last time I do it.

(At least one or two launchpad users had a laugh, that's not that bad, isn't it ? )

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

omg ponies. at least you will send this upstream, right?

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Shame on me... (see the date of the report if you don't understand)

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Raphaël Pinson (raphink) wrote :

Nice joke :) although I really enjoy seeing the bugs decrease day after day in Dapper, and having happy users rejoicing when they switch to Dapper :)

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