Rant on Ubuntu/Linspire etc

[Michel Daggelinckx]

Man-Chicken schreef:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:18:57 Lokeey wrote:
>   
>> wow! the guy does have a good point. it would be interesting if that even
>> remotely hapened.
>>
>> On 2/14/07, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Note that this was written well before the announced cooperation between
>>> Canonical and Linspire;
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2yg9gs
>>>
>>> might irritate some (many?) but he has his points. Matt Hartley once
>>> more...
>>>
>>> Sinclair
>>>
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>
> I must say that I strongly disagree with the very premise of this person's 
> argument.  The idea that Free software is just another product to market, and 
> that it's okay to stick non-free bundles in to make it more marketable 
> bothers me.
>
>   
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