On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:28 -0600, John Morris wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 02:23, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > But has anyone at RH tried asking for permission? Including preset repo
> > lines for livna is right out, both legally and morally for the mission
> > of Fedora. But what about the idea of a legal but non-free catagory for
> > Flash, Acrobat, Nvidia, ATI, etc?
>
> what makes you think NVidia and ATI are legal?
Ok, I'll bite. It's legal until they they get busted.
that's a strange world you live in. That's saying that murder is legal
until you get caught. That's not the case ...
Which brings me back to my original question. If we accept that
some
chunks of closed software are going to remain in most user's machines
for the foreseeable future, how can the process of obtaining these
pieces be simplified.
there is a difference. I have no problem with software being closed. At
all. I do have a problem with software violating the license on my code.
Those are two very distinct cases, at least for me; some people try to
make those the same, but they are fundamentally different.