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Rob Beard wrote: > That got me thinking about software licences. Okay, so this Freespire > can play lots of different media such as Flash, QuickTime, Real, > WindowsMedia, but I considered the discussion on the LUG the other day. > > Since some of the software is proprietary, what is stopping the > companies who licence this code to Linspire to change their minds and > demand that users stop using Freespire. Absolutely nothing. What's more, some of those licences may require that users remove the data created using the proprietary software - as Amazon does. "Freespire" is not free at all. > Surely it would be better for the Lindows coders to put their efforts > into creating Open Source versions of these media codecs? Absolutely true. > I think I'll stick to Ubuntu. I can't help but think Freespire is > trying to be another Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse. No, they are just being a parasite and deserve nothing but contempt. Dressing up proprietary software under a "free" name is deliberately trying to mislead users. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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