[ubuntu-za] Maverick too much promoting non-free? (was: DRM and software licensing )

Quintin van Rooyen quintin.vanrooyen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 12:58:01 BST 2010


On 6 October 2010 13:54, Helge Reikeras <helge.reikeras at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry Quinton! For some reason I read "not good enough" :-/ My bad...
>
> Hey no worries at all!



> Helge
>
>
> On 06 Oct 2010, at 1:29 PM, Quintin van Rooyen <
> quintin.vanrooyen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 October 2010 12:57, Helge Reikeras < <helge.reikeras at gmail.com>
> helge.reikeras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Quintin
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, exactly why do think the tick box is more of a
>> problem than the software center?
>>
>> I think we might have to swallow our pride in this case, and regard it as
>> a means to an end; improving the user experience and growing the market
>> share for Linux. I think Ubuntu is aiming for somewhere in between Debian
>> and Mint. The difficulty of consuming media in formats requring "non-free"
>> codecs is likely the most common user complaint with Ubuntu.
>>
>> I never said that the tick box was bad, in fact I think it is a great
> feature, did I say so in the blog entry?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Q
>
>
>>  Regards,
>> Helge
>>
>> On 06/10/2010 11:51, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
>>
>> When you install Maverick, there is a tick box in the installer itself
>> asking if you want to install the codecs.
>>
>> See a screenshot here :<http://g33q.co.za/2010/09/19/impressions-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-beta-with-screenshots/>
>> http://g33q.co.za/2010/09/19/impressions-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-beta-with-screenshots/(shameless blog punt.)
>>
>> That is good enough IMO.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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