[ubuntu-in] Subject of Proprietory Software(s) codecs etc on Ubuntu

[Onkar Shinde]

On 3/11/07, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is a follow up on the previous posts on piracy
>
> there is a persistent issue of Ubuntu not being totally open source and
> that it includes components (codecs etc ) that are propreitory and that
> basically go against the GNU/Linux core FLOSS philosophy
>
> comments !!!
>
> ram

Wrong analogy. The ebook was published by someone (or some company)
and there is no mention about it being freely redistributable.
FOSS is about sharing but not something which is not owned by you or
when you don't have license for sharing.


Onkar
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Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software.
Don't ask why - the reason is the same.