ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 8, Issue 5

[Holiday]

Please stay in reality, Mario. Come back. We need you.

Our country's laws in this issue are not reasonable. It's Kafkaesque!

Stay with that. How to change it? I don't know. But if we can agree that it
should be changed then maybe that is a starting point.



On 11/9/05, Mario Couture <mario_couture at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Oops, I guess my message did not come across as I intended, sorry....
>
>
> What I meant is there are a multitudes of type of users that can use
> Linux, and for different reasons. I used my Dad as a sample of one of
> those group that probably will never need multimedia capacity, this by
> no means diminishes the needs of others, I just saying that for some
> people it's ready enough.
>
> I'm too a user, and I've been using it since '94 it's now my default OS,
> but that did took some time. I also have a laptop, (dual boot) and I
> rarely play DVD in it, (maybe the fact that Windows bluescreen on me 1
> out of 2 time I play a DVD does not help :-) I tend to watch movies on
> my regular TV at home, so this my basis of comments.
>
> Now about the Canada issue, I do agree that it's more a problem of laws
> that started with good intentions (at least I'd like to believe that)
> but evolved in things that are slanted in favour of the corporations and
> more or less ignores the citizen. I wish there was an easy solution to
> that. But maybe the more people uses Linux the more the issues with
> these laws that are in favour of shareholders to the detriment of the
> citizen may start to be re-evaluated after more and more citizen start
> complaining about them. Ok, maybe I'm delusional and this is not in the
> real of possibility but but again I'd like to believe it can be
> possible.
>
> Now I'll go back to my fantasy world...
>
> Mario.
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 04:49 -0800, Holiday wrote:
> > Oh sure, I know. My girlfriend uses my computer without finding any
> > difference with windows at al and I have thought it would be a good
> > alternative for my mother with her insanely promiscuous screensaver
> > and funny email sharing friends . She does email, webbrowsing, and
> > works on her journal.
> >
> > I'm not putting down Ubuntu or Linux, it is my environment of choice.
> > I am saying that we have a serious credibiltiy problem when it comes
> > to multimedia support when nearly everyone else I know plays DVDs and
> > MP3s on their nifty little laptops.
> >
> > And though it directly affects the credibility of Ubuntu in Canada, I
> > believe this is a more a Canada issue than an Ubuntu issue. We bend
> > over way to far to protect corporate and other institutional power.
> > What is the has-to-be-nutty reason that every time I buy a blank CD I
> > have to give a few pennies to RCA?
> >
> > Tell me again!
> >
> > When you leap to protect Ubuntu in this, you are missing the point.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/8/05, Mario Couture <mario.couture at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I agree that for some people it may not be quite there yet,
> > but this may
> > not be true for everyone.
> >
> > See my example below.
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 01:21 -0800, Holiday wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think we should be pushing Ubuntu until the
> > multimedia
> > > problems are worked out. If I have to dual boot play DVDs,
> > why should
> > > I bother with Linux at all.
> > >
> > To get access to tons of other software for free (freedom and
> > beer too).
> > Using my Dad as an example; so my Dad can write his
> > genealogical tree
> > without having to buy another piece of software, so that he
> > doesn't get
> > a virus in the process, and so that the file he creates will
> > be
> > accessible by many generations to come because it is in a
> > format that is
> > not locked by legal issues.
> >
> > And there are tons of other reasons, which most likely differ
> > from
> > person to person, so I guess what I;m trying to say ois that
> > we should
> > push Ubuntu, but not force it, if it does not fit your need
> > (yet) then
> > don't used it.
> >
> > PS. my Dad usually puts his DVD in his DVD player connected to
> > the TV.
> >
> > Mario
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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