[LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Mon Jun 5 14:18:33 PDT 2006


On Jun 5, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Julian Yap wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 13:22 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
>> On Jun 3, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
>>> But in order to do MP3, DVD, and/or play movies, etc., you need to
>>> do something extra.  Fortunately, there is a Python script that
>>> will do all these, and more, in one simple batch process:
>>>
>>> http://users.on.net/~goetz/EasyUbuntu/get.html
>>
>> Of course, once you do that, you no longer have a 100% FOSS system.
>
> .. And also, you no longer have a legal system.

I was going to leave the legalities out of it, as I didn't want you  
(or anyone else) to think I was attacking you.

Perhaps some on this list will begin to understand why i side with  
Stallman on the issue of "Free Software" .vs "Open Source Software".

Jim



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