making deals with M$

Mark Fink mpfink at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 23:20:05 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:04:02 -0400 "Mark Fink" <mpfink at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I just read this article:
>>http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/
>>
>>I hope this is wrong or I will have to stop using ubuntu and find
>>another distro to use. Such a shame...
>>
>>Hope you are all proud of yourselves.
>>
>
> Note that is a remix of Ubuntu (i.e. a derivative) and not Ubuntu itself.
> Canonical != Ubuntu.  If you want to stop using Ubuntu because its primary
> corporate sponsor may have licensed something from Microsoft to use in some
> other product, knock yourself out.
>
> Scott K

Just like OpenSuSE != Novell, but no one in their right mind would
want to run that distro due to the taint for the same reason!

As Roy Schestowitz says, this is just as bad as Moonlight!

Mark




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