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On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 23:05 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking a lot about freedom in GNU/Linux. I've come to the > conclusion that it is really the best and most important thing about it > and central to the community element (which I think is fantastic!) as > well. I've been hearing rumours here and there about Ubuntu starting to > include non-free drivers for graphics cards, wireless etc etc by > default; add to that the launchpad system is proprietary. I was > wondering what other people thought about these things and others? I > can't seem to find any significant discussions about it anywhere... > > Hope everyone is well! > > Jon > While it will be nice to have everything working immediatley I am annoyed about this. Why would Nvidia ever open source their drivers now? The Ubuntu team have shown people will just give in and accept them as they are. I wish one of the kernel dev would assign copyright to the FSF because maybe they would then have the balls to sue Nvidia for breaching the GPL. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html