I found this article to be extremely disturbing. Surely the negative PR
of such a move isn't worth $1/yr in revenue? Who's making these
brain-damaged decisions?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/banshee-amazon-store-disabled-by-canonical-in-ubuntu
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
I found this article to be extremely disturbing. Surely the negative PR of
such a move isn't worth $1/yr in revenue? Who's making these
brain-damaged decisions?
I'm more curious about the pragmatic aspects here -- in what sense are the
Banshee maintainers able to disable the Amazon store by default? If
Canonical is the one packaging and shipping it, and Banshee is open source
software, can't they just re-enable it on the version in Launchpad that they
put
At work we have an automated install system and use a highly customized
version of 10.10. For friends and family, I use the standard i386/amd64
Ubuntu Desktop ISO to install Ubuntu on their machines.
Recently, I decided to re-install an old Dell Latitude D630 with
Maverick so that my
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 04:49:40 pm Patrick Goetz wrote:
At work we have an automated install system and use a highly customized
version of 10.10. For friends and family, I use the standard i386/amd64
Ubuntu Desktop ISO to install Ubuntu on their machines.
Recently, I decided to
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:49 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote:
A better solution would be to include the most common proprietary
drivers in some kind of encrypted sandbox on the install CD and let
the user choose whether or not he/she would like to use the
proprietary drivers at the time of the
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On 02/16/2011 04:49 PM, Patrick Goetz
On 2/16/2011 4:07 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
The problem is with the licensing of the _proprietary driver_. These
drivers typically allow no-charge download directly from the vendor
website, but the license includes terms that make REDISTRIBUTION illegal
(without permission).
If that's the case,
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 08:45:01 pm Patrick Goetz wrote:
On 2/16/2011 4:07 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
The problem is with the licensing of the _proprietary driver_. These
drivers typically allow no-charge download directly from the vendor
website, but the license includes terms that
