Installing and newbies

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> On 05/08/2008 Jussi Schultink wrote:
> >  This is Kubuntu not Ubuntu, so the choices of software are of course
> >  going to be KDE choices. We have Kmail and  Konqueror as defaults.
> >  Flash and Java cannot be included for obvious free software reasons.
> >
>
> I keep seeing this about certain "non-free" applications. BUT, I have to
> question that statement. Java, Acroread, Flashplayer, etc may not be
> open source but they are FREE. There is no charge from the supplier for
> their download and installation.
>
> How can they NOT be included because they are "non-free" when they are
> FREE?

Take a look at the Licence Agreements for these...You know that box that
everybody just says "I agree" and never reads...
At work we  found out that  while anybody can  Download  Acroread  freely
you are not allowed to pre-install it on a machine

-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
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