Debian now includes proprietary A/V codecs and flash? Are mp3 and dvdcss now
obsolete enough to be given away? Really?! This is generally not how I have
heard things work; even the crappiest Atari 2600 shovelware game from 1982 is
owned until the end of time not by its dead developer but by some massive
infomation-reaver company.
I'm not too worried about apt-get installing.... But what is the point in a
free distribution if you turn around and add restricted codecs to make most
things most people use work?
I am not condoning the status quo or meaning to pick on Debian/Triquel. Maybe
I'm just not thinking far enough out of the box(cubicle): the internet itself
is a spent force, rapidly degenerating into the cash cow of looter corporados
pushing repackaged Home Shopping and PPV movie junk. How many times are we
gonna rebuy The White Album?
Perhaps something like Outernet connecting computers like Purism Libre 15
could be the future of truly free computing. It seems like only yesterday
when there were freenets instead of massive ISP companies so powerful that
their MO is to put the fledgeling competition out business with frivolous
lawsuits....
