[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

[alan]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Allen Brown wrote:

> roger wrote:
>> Well, this didn't wet my appetite too much. :-/
>>
>> http://dl.tv/
>>
>> Episode 162:
>> A Little Bit Linux: We've got Ubuntu on the desktop. One of our friends
>> at ExtremeTech.com says Ubuntu Feisty Fawn should be called Crappy Cow!
>
> Reading thru all the objections at ExtremeTech, it appears that
> in each case Ubuntu was constrained by license issues.  So I
> think the review was unduly harsh.  Even he pointed out that
> Ubuntu made it easy to get around these issues.  He just wanted
> them to be fixed "out of the box".  But if that isn't legally
> possible, how are they to do it?

What is interesting about the patent issues is that even if you obey the 
licencing/extortion scheme, you can still get sued. Microsoft found this 
out with MP3 when someone else who owned a piece of the format sued.

We are close approaching a time where it will not be possible to do 
anything interesting or useful without violating the law in some form.

> I think the reviewer should be called "Whiny Brat".

I think you are being overly kind.

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