multimedia software

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:33:28AM -0500, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> It's true, we might be able to sign some deal with Sun to
> redistribute Java but the Ubuntu project very early on took a
> principled position that we would not sign deals that gave *us*
> freedom but did not allow us to transfer these down to our
> users or our derivatives.

Quite respectable.

Those who are willing to help might do kind of agreement using
their firm or another organization and maintain separate
repository.

> Ubuntu's goal is to serve its users. But to do so while and
> through giving them freedom as defined by our philosophy. There
> will be disagreement on how this balancing act is done and
> there will not always be consensus. I suspect this may be one
> of those times.

Well they still have the freedom of going somewhere else.
There's no a single one answer here, of course.

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