post-install media formats wizard

[Florian Zeitz]

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Murray Cumming schrieb:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 02:14 +1100, Jamie Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:29 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:22 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
>>>> On 2/22/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Instead of baffling people with licensing, patenting, copyright, and
>>>>> other incomprehensible blather, distros need to make it easy for people
>>>>> to _pay_ for the things that they must pay for.
>>>>
>>>> that doesn't make any sense.  first of all, they *don't* have to pay
>>>> for that unless they live in the usa.
>>> No mainstream distro is going to give you something that's illegal in
>>> the U.S. just because you say that you are not in the U.S. It's a nasty
>>> world and we have to live in it.
>> Now once again, explain to me *why* you seem to think laws that apply to
>> the U.S.A should apply to the rest of the world ?
> 
> 1. They don't really apply, but they exert force on companies that do
> business worldwide. No company can distribute free software widely while
> simultaneously claiming not to allow people in the U.S. to receive that
> software. So they get prosecuted or sued in the U.S. if they do that
> successfully. That's a concern of businesses even if it isn't your
> personal concern, though it would quickly become your concern if you
> distributed the stuff widely.
> 
Did you ever notice that ubuntu IS distributed world wide on the internet?

> 2. If you don't like it, you can use a different distro, so nobody is
> forcing you.
> 
So why do you want to force this on ubuntu, couldn't ubuntu just be that
different distro.

>>  Mmm, perhaps we should
>> force our laws on you ?
> 
> I don't live in the U.S.
> 
So you basically like putting restrictions on you that you don't have to
take, sound masochistic.
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