Re: release notes: first draft
- From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- To: Edward Hervey <bilboed gmail com>
- Cc: GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n gnome org>, Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>, GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, marketing-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: release notes: first draft
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:13:09 +0000
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 13:44 +0000, Edward Hervey wrote:
> I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and
> unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it
> *allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to
> download/use them AFAIK).
Given the goal of gnome to be a free desktop I think the description
"take advantage of" is misleading. It allows third party vendors to
"take advantage of" users. It allows users to be taken advantage of.
And its hardly a feature from a software freedom perspective.
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