to autodownload or not to autodownload

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 8 19:14:16 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:18 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:

> Imagine such situation.
> 
> You friend switched recently to Linux, because heard that everything is 
> free here.
> 
> Tries to watch movie and sees "pay" button...
> 
> Ubuntu had no problem with including codec and driver installer... 
> Without need to pay.
> 
> We're now little bit ortodox about "free" idea.

We can't do anything about that. Canonical doesn't think they have to
play by US laws and so they can get around the problem. 

Fedora cannot and WILL NOT play fast and loose with the law.

-sv





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