UITN: Ubuntu's Missing Batteries

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:17:56 -0500
Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only way to get this type of software legally is for Canonical (or
> someone else) to pay/obtain the appropriate licences and then provide
> the software, with restrictions, or, to wait for the relevant patents
> to expire.

As others have pointed out (including Mark), this depends a lot on where
you happen to live. Quite a lot of countries have relatively sane laws...
at least about certain kinds of software ... ;-)

Peter

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I'd switch to BSD faster than a speeding Gentoo user.'
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