If computing has a patron saint, it is the great and amazing Donald Knuth. Surfing these sites and discovering new music is widespread with the latest generation of online consumers but the process of actually purchasing the music needs to be made easier to encourage sales and develop this new market.”

John Enser, Oslang’s head honcho of music, added: “The music industry needs to embrace new opportunities being generated by the increasing popularity of music on social networking sites. The survey backs up that claim, with 84 per cent saying that older digital downloads should be made cheaper, while nearly half (48 per cent) said that they’d be happy to pay more for newer releases. Now in its fourth year, the survey - carried out by Entertainment Media Research in conjunction with media lawyers Olswang - found that 43% of UK consumers admitted to downloading music without paying for it, adding up to a hefty hike from 36% in 2006.Ĭommenting on the slowing growth of authorised downloads (up by just 15 per cent this year, compared to 40 per cent in 2006), Hart said that folks are donning their pirate’s hats and grabbing illegal downloads because official downloads are seen as too pricey. Hey, music industry, I think the people formerly known as the audience are trying to tell you something: Guess which company I shall be buying from when Dell starts selling GNU/Linux systems in the UK? Guess which company I shall be recommending to people when they ask for advice about buying PCs in the UK? Guess which company can go and get knotted? As a result, it has no clue what anyone wants, but being a superior company that knows much better than mere customers what they want, it knows full well that people outside the US don't want Ubuntu running on their laptops - even though that is what they are telling Dell. People then ask for Dell systems running Ubuntu outside the US, and it looks like that may well happen.Īcer, by contrast, does not ask anyone what they want. People ask for Dell systems running Ubuntu, people get systems running Ubuntu in the US. Well, let's just compare that with Dell, shall we.ĭell creates a site where people can tell the company what it wants. Therefore, those configurations are not an option at the moment,' said the spokesperson. However, there is no demand for it in the UK. ' with Ubuntu pre-loaded are available at the factory level.

Ubuntu is currently one of the world's most popular and easiest-to-use Linux distributions.īut a spokesperson for Acer told .uk on Tuesday that the company - one of the world's top laptop manufacturers - had 'no plans' to sell any Linux-based systems in the UK. The Acer Aspire 5710Z has gone on sale in Singapore pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows.

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