post-install media formats wizard

[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:32 +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:52 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > But he _can_ have it working, if we allow him to pay the small amounts
> > of money that it requires.
> 
> To quote some passages from http://www.ubuntulinux.com/ 
> 
> The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu
> Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge,

Hmm, I guess the ambiguity and/or lack of prioritizing in this mission
statement will have to be cleared up if Ubuntu is going to allow people
to play these non-free formats. Many of these formats will never be free
of charge in most of the world.

The current strategy of saying something like "You definitely should not
click here to make this work." will hit lawyers eventually. The people
who own these formats (MS, Apple, DVD alliance) have every incentive and
funds to use the law against us.
  
>  that
> software tools should be usable by people in their local language and
> despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to
> customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
> 
> Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the
> "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone
> on the same Free terms.
> 
> Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free software
> development; we encourage people to use free and open source software,
> improve it and pass it on.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
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Murray Cumming
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