Onkar Shinde wrote: > On 3/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> This is a follow up on the previous posts on piracy >> >> there is a persistent issue of Ubuntu not being totally open source and >> that it includes components (codecs etc ) that are propreitory and that >> basically go against the GNU/Linux core FLOSS philosophy >> >> comments !!! > > Wrong analogy.
yep true Just that while the discussions on the ebook were on it struck me that this was one question i had been wantin to ask - to clarify > The ebook was published by someone (or some company) > and there is no mention about it being freely redistributable. > FOSS is about sharing but not something which is not owned by you or > when you don't have license for sharing. FOSS yes but the question still is about the proprietory stuff - the difference i guess is that a. the proprietory drivers, etc are not licensed as open source - even if they are freely distributable [whereas in the case of the book it is not freely distributable (and nor is it open source)] thanks ram > Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
