Peter Alcibiades wrote: "they were probably right."
I didn't say they were wrong; I said I thought they were silly. I am not a purist; in fact there are quite a few people I know who believe I am about the most "impure" person there is :) The folks at Ubuntu would like us to believe they are pure (their website goes on about it ad nauseam); yet, out of the "sides of their mouths" they direct users to medibuntu and so on which can dovetail 'non-free' stuff into Ubuntu. How ever much I may not be entirely clear on what exactly constitutes Open Source software (and, having, previously, been badly affected by 'gurus' am wary of extreme, fundamentalist types like R Stallman), I do understand what the word "FREE" means. If I can have legally FREE software on my computer I really don't care whether it was made with 100% Organically Grown Fair-Trade Tomatoes or not! I also understand a maxim my grandmother from Norfolk (England) taught me : "Never look a gift-horse in the mouth". [And, I suspect, I may be more 'normal' in my outlook than a lot of the open source fanatics] I, living in a country where copyright laws are useless and an ongoing joke, tend to avoid the whole, messy thing, and focus on making my money in a different way (and, as outlined in an earlier posting, protecting software I put together in a physically effective manner). So . . . sorry this is getting a bit tedious . . . when I offered my 2 standalones to Ubuntu . . . . . Oh, curses, fill in the dots yourself :) sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
