Science-fiction ;-)

[Tim Schmidt]

On 9/28/06, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > On 9/28/06, Gnu/Linux Technology <linux.fr at laposte.net> wrote:
> >> This choices are more political than technical, but we have to talk
> >> about to find how to allows more and more users to migrate to open-systems.
> (reverse snip)
> >> I could see during install party that it is the more diificult
> >> part to explain why this stuff is not inside Ubuntu according to GPL.
> >> Newbies don't understand why the distro is not functionnal out of the
> >> box (like it was in 2004 releases of Simply MEPIS).
> >
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy
> >
> > --tim
> >
>
> this might be better: http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
> you could give them a copy of that page.

Sure, but the licensing flows from the philosophy.  If we didn't care
about user freedom, we could make agreements with Adobe and ship
non-free software all day long.  Licensing doesn't prevent that.

--tim