Comment 87 for bug 190515

Hey Sebastian

I see where you are coming from but, the fact remains that there is 'NO
BUG TO FIX'. All that is required is that the old driver is re-instated
in the basic build - something that works does not need fixing - a heap
of junk that stops people using the complete system needs throwing away
not fixing. What pray was the point of a new driver anyway for an old
chip set - I am lost for an explanation. How much is spent on
developing Ubuntu - the real costs must be astronomical - yet all that
money is wasted if you can't use the system. Upgrades to Gnome, Open
Office, Firefox - these are all irrelevant if you cant log on. A basic
need is to link to the internet (hence web books) without that the whole
computer is a useless pile of junk. I have to say I am torn between
paying for a new wireless card and dumping Ubuntu all together.

I will try six packs recipe for loading the dedicated driver but, if
that fails it will be goodbye Ubuntu. What a pity, it is such a
brilliant OS. But my main requirement is the web and I can't do it
without constantly crashing.

I hope this will make it abundantly clear to Canonical why they misspend
their resources - it is the basic things that need to be right - not the
bells and whistles - hence, the enduring popularity of Debian. I know
how geeks are, they only want to work on the bells and whistles - but it
is basics that pay the bills. I would not pay $20 to fix this bug - I
would put the cash towards a new wireless card which would cost about
$20. If I wasn't retired, I would have paid for a new one already. In
fact, I think I will make the jump into Geekdom and install Debian
instead. How hard, will it be to suss out the driver installation and
have a usable system? One that always makes operability rather than
frills its basic requirement.

Regards Vici

Sebastian Urban wrote:
> @Canonical:
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> How much money would we have to pay to get this bug fixed?
> We all like Ubuntu, know that it is an open source project and development resources are expensive. A lot of people seem to be affected. So if everybody pays, say $ 20, will this be enough to hire a developer to fix this problem? Perhaps we can open a "shared" support request.
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