Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

[Jimmy Bradley]

   So go ahead and run Ubuntu, and just shut up, will ya. I haven't
heard of you complaining about some one holding a gun to your head, and
trying to force you to run Fedora. Like I said, I run 5 machines, and
each one has a different distro on it. I'll admit, that one of them has
Ubuntu loaded on it, but it was because that distro recognized all the
hardware that I used in that particular machine.
  We all know you like Ubuntu, you don't have to keep telling us.

Jim

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 22:03 +1000, Res wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> 
> > Res <res at ausics.net> writes:
> >
> >> Really? Thats why Ubuntu will let me do *anything* I want, and that
> >> means even play mp3's anytime I damned well want without going to
> >> third party repos, I think I know which distro has respect for my
> >> freedom, my freedom to do what I want, play what I want, when I want,
> >
> > The reason why Fedora does not ship codecs for popular media formats such
> > as mp3 and mpeg is not ideological, but legal. Those formats are patented
> > in the United States, and shipping them anyway would expose Fedora and
> > Fedora's parent company Red Hat to greatly increased legal risks. Microsoft
> > just felt that risk, beging forced to hand over 1.2 billion dollars after a
> > court judgement. Also remember that knowingly infringing carries triple
> > damages.
> 
> 
> The avg user does not give a shit about the politics of it, they just want 
> to do it!
> 
> this legal bullshit argument has been had out on this list so many times 
> ive lost count, the end of it is if we are to convert win users to linux, 
> forget fedora, because like it or not, they want to play there mp3's and 
> fedora does not allow that out of the box, remembering most win uses are 
> non technical savvy and wont want to go to hassle of qadding in this repo, 
> adn that repo to geet other stuff their win box currently does by default, 
> like 99% of other linux distros also do by default, if one doesnt do it by 
> default, they look elsewhere, thats the facts, I here it every day in my 
> attempt to convert, so I no longer recommend fedora.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Res
> 
> 
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