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Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 3/25/07, *Matt Lee* <mattl@xxxxxxx <mailto:mattl@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Neil Williams wrote:
> 
>     > Matt, we do need to be realistic, there IS NO newbie-friendly OS that
>     > meets those criteria.
> 
>     gNewSense. That's no less friendly than Ubuntu, and has all the
>     proprietary software removed.
> 
>     How do you explain things like this?
> 
>     http://www.ubuntu.com/news/opera9
> 
> 
> How about freedom of choice?
> They didn't bundle it, but instead allowed their users easy access if
> they want it.

Anyone else notice the tick against "Show commercial applications" ??

>     There are several good reasons to not promote Ubuntu to anyone.
> 
> 
> Opera being in a separate repository with "proprietary!! harms
> freedom!!" error messages is not one of them.
> 

see my comment above...

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