ethical ubuntu

Jerome Gotangco jgotangco at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 16:28:33 BST 2006


Just to play the devil's advocate the most non-free that we have by
default are those part in restricted and the rest are optional
installs.

In my opinion we can't say to users what's supposed to be ethical to
use or not. It is their choice to use non-free apps as they require
it, say they have business associates running Skype (like I do), or
having nvidia-glx installed so I could play 3D accelerated commercial
games on Linux (say Quake or Doom).

And the examples in the spec are derogatory in my opinion, and would
even go against the possible commercial opportunities that may come
for Canonical and its support partners worldwide.

Jerome

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