Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

[Ric Moore]

On 02/06/2012 11:06 AM, Md Ashickur Rahman Noor wrote:
> Thanks for every bodies reply. I just want to know that is Ubuntu ship
> with non free? The answer is yes.
>
> We can not go with out non-free software, we have to understand that.
> Gobuntu is a backdated distro which is not maintain now. So there is no
> option to use it.
>
> So I think I we can have Ubuntu fork which has no non-free in shipment.
> But it is not possible. :D
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> On 6 February 2012 21:42, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com
> <mailto:ioannis.vranos at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Tim Edwards
>     <liststuff at fastmail.com.au <mailto:liststuff at fastmail.com.au>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > 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
>     <mailto:yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> [...]
>      >>
>      >> > >
>      >> > 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.
You have the option to exclude non-free software as an option at install 
time. Please don't top post.  Ric