Please stay in reality, Mario. Come back. We need you. <br>
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Our country's laws in this issue are not reasonable. It's Kafkaesque! <br>
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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. <br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mario Couture</b> <<a href="mailto:mario_couture@yahoo.com">mario_couture@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Oops, I guess my message did not come across as I intended, sorry....<br><br><br>What I meant is there are a multitudes of type of users that can use<br>Linux, and for different reasons. I used my Dad as a sample of one of
<br>those group that probably will never need multimedia capacity, this by<br>no means diminishes the needs of others, I just saying that for some<br>people it's ready enough.<br><br>I'm too a user, and I've been using it since '94 it's now my default OS,
<br>but that did took some time. I also have a laptop, (dual boot) and I<br>rarely play DVD in it, (maybe the fact that Windows bluescreen on me 1<br>out of 2 time I play a DVD does not help :-) I tend to watch movies on<br>
my regular TV at home, so this my basis of comments.<br><br>Now about the Canada issue, I do agree that it's more a problem of laws<br>that started with good intentions (at least I'd like to believe that)<br>but evolved in things that are slanted in favour of the corporations and
<br>more or less ignores the citizen. I wish there was an easy solution to<br>that. But maybe the more people uses Linux the more the issues with<br>these laws that are in favour of shareholders to the detriment of the<br>
citizen may start to be re-evaluated after more and more citizen start<br>complaining about them. Ok, maybe I'm delusional and this is not in the<br>real of possibility but but again I'd like to believe it can be<br>possible.
<br><br>Now I'll go back to my fantasy world...<br><br>Mario.<br><br>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 04:49 -0800, Holiday wrote:<br>> Oh sure, I know. My girlfriend uses my computer without finding any<br>> difference with windows at al and I have thought it would be a good
<br>> alternative for my mother with her insanely promiscuous screensaver<br>> and funny email sharing friends . She does email, webbrowsing, and<br>> works on her journal.<br>><br>> I'm not putting down Ubuntu or Linux, it is my environment of choice.
<br>> I am saying that we have a serious credibiltiy problem when it comes<br>> to multimedia support when nearly everyone else I know plays DVDs and<br>> MP3s on their nifty little laptops.<br>><br>> And though it directly affects the credibility of Ubuntu in Canada, I
<br>> believe this is a more a Canada issue than an Ubuntu issue. We bend<br>> over way to far to protect corporate and other institutional power.<br>> What is the has-to-be-nutty reason that every time I buy a blank CD I
<br>> have to give a few pennies to RCA?<br>><br>> Tell me again!<br>><br>> When you leap to protect Ubuntu in this, you are missing the point.<br>><br>><br>><br>> On 11/8/05, Mario Couture <
<a href="mailto:mario.couture@rogers.com">mario.couture@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I agree that for some people it may not be quite there yet,<br>> but this may<br>> not be true for everyone.
<br>><br>> See my example below.<br>><br>> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 01:21 -0800, Holiday wrote:<br>><br>> > I don't think we should be pushing Ubuntu until the<br>> multimedia
<br>> > problems are worked out. If I have to dual boot play DVDs,<br>> why should<br>> > I bother with Linux at all.<br>> ><br>> To get access to tons of other software for free (freedom and
<br>> beer too).<br>> Using my Dad as an example; so my Dad can write his<br>> genealogical tree<br>> without having to buy another piece of software, so that he<br>> doesn't get
<br>> a virus in the process, and so that the file he creates will<br>> be<br>> accessible by many generations to come because it is in a<br>> format that is<br>> not locked by legal issues.
<br>><br>> And there are tons of other reasons, which most likely differ<br>> from<br>> person to person, so I guess what I;m trying to say ois that<br>> we should<br>> push Ubuntu, but not force it, if it does not fit your need
<br>> (yet) then<br>> don't used it.<br>><br>> PS. my Dad usually puts his DVD in his DVD player connected to<br>> the TV.<br>><br>> Mario<br>><br>><br>>
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