Holy Cow!! is all I have to say. Y'all rant a bit too much. There is this thing called "AUTOMATIX" for Ubuntu. Everyone but Alan's wife would be just fine using it. Heck, if you don't like the "legal status" of some of that stuff then do your complaining to the copyright holders and not the distro provider. A company doing business in America is expected to follow the law even if it is seemingly quite stupid.
One thing to do though would make a "Proprietary Packages" alongside the "restricted drivers" in Ubuntu. That way you can point and click Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Macromedia Flash, Sun Java, & RealPlayer. Then for each you would be expected to 'Agree' the their licenses so you can install and use. Win32Codecs would of course have to remain 'illegal' in the US and therefore not offered in the "PP" solution but still available through Automatix. Problem solved eh? Mr O. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
