[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

[terry na]

As far as NASA .gov goes they are using are tax money unwisely with a
windows OS they have a alternative in Linux and they save $$$ when they
compose videos the Ubuntu defult software will view there videos. my 2 cents
and fairly new to Ubuntu.



On 5/4/07, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
>
> alan wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Here is a URL to an article from yesterday's InformationWeek, about the
> supreme court on just that topic.
> <http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D199203=
296
> >
> eh?
> Regards
> Fred James
>
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