Linspire / Ubuntu partnership
nodata
lsof at nodata.co.uk
Sat Feb 10 09:18:03 UTC 2007
Am Samstag, den 10.02.2007, 11:34 +0800 schrieb Joel Bryan Juliano:
> On 2/10/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Patrick Newberry wrote:
> > http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter_archives.php?id=40
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts on this partnership? Click and run (CNR) in
> ubuntu?
>
> Not a fan. Just makes it easier for proprietary software to
> creep into
> an OS that is supposed
> (http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy) to be
> libre. I'm looking into Gnewsense
> ( http://www.gnewsense.org/), a
> seriously libre version of Ubuntu, again.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
> Unfortunately not all users care if the drivers and software their
> using is proprietary or not,
> an average user will likely to use what's in there, and isn't
> interested that much about it's existence. They probably care more
> about it's user experience and to get their jobs done.
It would be good to have a graph of the proprietary package growth in
Ubuntu. Maybe we could extrapolate what will happen.
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