Why Ubuntu isn't for New Linux Users

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 23:51 +0000, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Randy Gloden wrote:
> 
> > useful as other options.  In the long run, this solution would require 
> > less expertise than the EasyUbuntu approach (which required the user 
> > to actively select the appropriate options).  So, this is a better 
> > approach that what I had envisioned.  Now all we have to do is to get 
> > it workable and into the distro.
> 
> Please note, that you can't stick this in the distro as your are 
> suggesting and distribute it in countries with as yet untested laws but 
> ones that non the less say you can't decrypt stuff without the 
> "correctly licenced tool".

Part of the challenge of the spec is to ensure that everything is
legally appropriate. Right now, all those things are available to
install, so a tool that makes it easier to install, while promoting
awareness of the legal issues, can only help.

> The countries that have this that I know of are the USA and Ireland, 
> there are more.
> They call it the DMCA, me I call it the Dominated by Multiple Corporate* 
> Atrocities.

Ranting won't help.

Matt
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