UITN: Ubuntu's Missing Batteries

[James Livingston]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 09:54 +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006, Scott wrote:
> > I'd really hoped an honest-to-god Ubuntu developer would have happened 
> > upon Automatix by now, thought it a great concept, improved it as needed 
> > and helped it land in the official archives.
> 
> You can't really do that, because of the degree of non-free-ness of some
> software automatix installs.

Exactly. The main reason for the existance of AutoMatrix, EasyUbunu et
al, is that most of the software it installs has legal issues. If those
issues didn't exist, the software would probably be in Ubuntu. Some bits
aren't in that basket (alternatives like totem-xine), but for the most
part, they can't be included.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
-- 
USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot".
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