For us in Pakistan, where the Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan has clearly stated in national legislation on IPR that software in Pakistan will not be patented but can be copyrighted!
This leaves us to the fact that the codecs or their patentability holds less value for our citizens but at the same time the major interest that has taken Ubuntu from the home user and enthusiast to the enterprise level and government support is the drive against software piracy!!! In each country such complications will have different affects, as for Ubuntu Pakistan Team, the affects would be negligible in the short-term but in the longterm I would be and so would the members of the Pakistan Team be very skeptical because this change will affect not only one or two countries but the overall Ubuntu community network around the whole world. -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Ubuntu Pakistan Official Team Pakistan On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Neil Coetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just had a rather embarrassing situation arise over the announcement > of proprietary codecs being for sale. We have just submitted an article > (which we do monthly) to a local newsletter published by the Computer > Society of Zimbabwe, and along with our article bragging about the Ubuntu > promise of always being free, they also published a link to this article: > > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20762/1090/ > > which claims that Ubuntu has become commercial and is no longer free based > on this codec issue. I have so far been unable to find out for sure, whether > or not the free download of codecs is still available? I would assume so, > but can anyone confirm this before I start complaining to the people who > mass-mailed that link? I would appreciate it if anyone can shed any light on > what is actually happening and what the implications are. > > Urgent feedback would be appreciated so that I can jump on the Computer > Society of Zimbabwe and ask them to retract that publicly if necessary. > > Regards, > Neil > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
