Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> * Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> Canonical wants Netbook partners to open drivers for Ubuntu
>>
>> They should start by ripping out the "officially licensed"
>> proprietary media codecs first, and promoting the Free Software
>> equivalents instead.
>
> Yeah. I don't think Canonical should follow quite the same path as
> Red Hat.
Oh believe me, RH/Fedora get a regular ripping on the mailing list for
that transgression too, and for others like Mono. However, in this
instance Shuttleworth is not talking about /offering/ these codecs for
download (a la Codec Buddy), but actually talking about /shipping/ them
pre-installed (or more specifically, a deal that enables OEMs to do so).
--
K.
http://slated.org
.----
| "Stallman has frequently pointed out, Free Software is by no means
| antithetical to making money: it's just a question of how you make
| money." ~ Glyn Moody: http://tinyurl.com/4wn2l2 (ComputerworldUK)
`----
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
16:20:35 up 176 days, 12:56, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.11
|
|
