Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Tim Edwards <liststuff at fastmail.com.au> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012, at 08:42 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:12:00 +0000
>> Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> [...]
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>> > >
>> > Having never come across a modern general purpose computer that can
>> > be run with 100% free software the whole thing is a mute point anyway.
>> >
>> Not so!
>>
>> Run the package, "vrms," on your box and see how close you are to
>> completely free and what to dump to be completely free.
>>
>> Mine, for instance, has flashplugin-nonfree and the nVidia driver, both
>> of which it (and I) could do without.
>
> Great package name "virtual Richard M. Stallman" but I don't think it's
> that accurate. For example it didn't pick-up packages I've installed
> from the partner repo - skype and adobe-flashplugin.
>
> Either way I couldn't do without these packages and although I could do
> without the others (MS TTF fonts, Virtualbox guest additions, rar/unrar,
> AAC audio encoding) I'd really rather not. Not to mention that not
> having the wifi firmware on my other computer (a laptop) would be an
> instant deal-breaker.

I think we will get only free software eventually.

http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com/documents/why_there_isn%27t%20going_to_be_the_year_of_linux.html

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Ioannis Vranos

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