UK is a closed source 'stronghold'   Hard evidence, anyone?
'Canonical is involved in a project to ship millions of PCs pre-
installed with Ubuntu out to rural communities....“Who knows
what the people who get these machines will do with them,”
George says'.  Well, instead of asking "Who knows", get back to
us in ten years and let us know. Better still, since Linux has
been around for twice that long, please point out the persuasive
examples which show clearly the fatal error of depending on
"proprietary" software. Instead what we hear is mere
speculation.  It seems more likely that proprietary software
does well in the UK because we can afford it, while the "Chinese
rural communities" cannot. Using "open source" software might
not put them greatly at a disadvantage, but neither will it turn
them from necessity into soaring eagles of computer technology,
any more than the quirks of my car will push me to redesign it
and hence forge a new automobile industry to rival Honda,
Mercedes and the rest.  On this PC I