[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone

[Dennis Myhand]

Yeah, I know.  But nearly every website which I HAVE to access demands,
JRE, or flash, or both.  I don't get a choice in the matter.  So, like I
said, it's back to Libranet, and I hope they decide that their manifesto
will include what people need as well as what they see as socially
acceptable.  

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone


* Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at ednaisd.org> [050407 08:09]:
> I hope they get thing more right than they have to this point.

My experience of Ubuntu isn't that they don't have things right, but
rather that they deliberately don't include or make special
accommodations for software that doesn't satisfy their definition of
free.  If you're waiting for them to include a media player that will
play most media formats, you may wait a long time.  Java, Flash, and
most media players currently don't meet Ubuntu's standards.

To put it bluntly, when you download Ubuntu, you're downloading an
operating system that has a Manifesto.  From their website:

	The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the
	Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of
	charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their
	local language and despite any disabilities, and that people
	should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in
	whatever way they see fit.

-- 
Lance Simmons

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