Most offensive thing I've seen all day

[Matt Morris]

OH dear, yet another person who has never read the GNU/GPL licence.
Please go and learn about open source software and how the diluting
and diverging of Open source software is all ways is encouraged, as
that is the way the FOSS world goes round.


On 8/4/06, Micah J. Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:23:41PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:51 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > > http://www.christianubuntu.com
> >
> > I don't find this offensive, nor would I find any other religious
> > derivative offensive.  However, I don't understand that rationale behind
> > creating an entirely new distribution just to install some extra
> > programs by default.
>
> Yeah, the page only seems to list GnomeSWORD. Seems easier just to
> install plain ubuntu and apt-get install the single remaining package
>
> I think the goal is to expand the available offerings, though. I could
> see the likely audience for a distro such as this adding and/or
> developing for inclusion, such items as scripture memory aids,
> religious-themed artwork and startup/desktop sounds and usplash, etc. If
> that's the sort of direction they're planning on, then a separate distro
> makes some sense.
>
> (Actually, according to their site [now that I've looked a bit closer],
> it's /not/ a separate distro of Ubuntu: more like a modification of the
> install CD.)
>
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