Thinking of installing Ubuntu on a Netbook we're going to buy as I've heard it's pretty lightweight in comparison to Windows 7. What are your thoughts on this in general? Also, it is free right?
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stargrave
14 years 11 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago
He is destroying freedom!
I want you to know that I use Ubuntu every day. All of the computers in my house (and there are many of them) use Ubuntu or some relative (like Debian). Not only is it free (as in liberty)
Hm. This guy seems to understand the value of freedom.
But several paragraphs below he recommends us to install (and provides links for that) Flash, Java (I am sure not the free one), patented codecs and Skype. He is describing how to destroy our freedom at once.
lverona
14 years 11 weeks 7 hours 3 min ago
Patented codecs are only bad
Patented codecs are only bad in USA, no? In Europe they do not work, as far as I know.
Also, how do they limit our freedom exactly, those codecs?
stargrave
14 years 11 weeks 46 min 23 sec ago
Re: Patented codecs are only bad
If something does not limit exactly only my freedom -- it does not mean that it won't limit anyone's else. Free software should and must provide ability to use it by all people all over the world. If it limits freedom of US-citizens -- it is not free, however europeans of course can use it freely. If I will install MPEG-codecs in Europe, then of course I can freely make any kind of MPEG file, but I can not share it with my US-friend in most cases. This is very direct example of how patented codecs can limit information sharing and so on, is not it?
Sourceforge began to prohibit access to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Is it wither normal or acceptable behaviour? Absolutely unethical and anti-hackerish culture it has. However some think that it does not correlate with free software movement and relates only to political side of country. So one can think about patents. I can not agree with everything of that at all.
Free software is for freedom. For freedom minimum at least in Internet. We have to struggle for it.