Ubuntu accuses Microsoft of Linux netbook FUD

“LaBlanc opened by claiming that almost all netbooks sold today
are sold with Windows. Well, no, not really. The numbers LaBlanc
cites are from NPD’s sales survey. NPD focuses on brick-and-mortar
U.S. sales, not overall sales. Notice how many Linux systems you
see at Best Buy? NPD numbers say a lot more about retail channel
sales than it does over-all sales. Besides, as Canonical’s director
of business development Kenyon wrote, “However here is an
interesting fact–when customers are offered choice on equally
well-engineered computers around a third will select Ubuntu over
XP.””

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