[SATLUG] Dell Hope

[Eli]

Brad Knowles wrote:
> On 6/1/07, herb cee wrote:
>
>>  Will this hurt do you think?
>>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6710327.stm
>
> Hurt Dell?  Yes.  Help Dell?  Maybe, but only in the longer run.
>
>>  I think kind of scary for Ubuntu
>
> Nah, not so much.  Ubuntu's biggest problem is that there's a lot of 
> stuff they're shipping default out-of-the-box that violates a bunch of 
> copyrights and patents here in the US, but because they're an overseas 
> organization it's hard for US companies to sue them.  And because of 
> the way they're organized, it's hard for anyone to get to the real 
> money behind the project (Mark Shuttleworth).
>
Strange, my experience is the opposite. Ubuntu is worthless for 
proprietary formats...just like most distros.

Until Automatix is run, that is....a third party script that adds many 
third party repositories, and then gives a gui to install non-gpl, 
non-free software, utils & codecs.

Perhaps you are commenting on vary early versions of ubuntu. (which I 
have no experience with, I've been playing with 6.10 & 7.04)