A strange fact about theses forums

[YourSurrogateGod]

As far as I'm concerned, if it gives options to people, would it matter if something is either open source or close source? I prefer Ubuntu over XP, but if someone needs XP, then it's their choice. It's about giving folks a choice as to what they want to do in life.

[htinn]

You guys ever look at SMF?

http://www.simplemachines.org/

[briancurtin]

I hope anyone who feels like judging Canonical or the Ubuntu Forums for using proprietary software is part of the 4% of users here who have completely Free Ubuntu installations.

zing

thats a zing against probably everyone in this thread haha

[TheCaptain]

Hehe, i'm going to stick my chin out and say that Ubuntu, Linux and completely free does not belong in the same sentence.

And aysiu is right, windows users don't say that Linux is great, they don't know if it is or not, heck, most of them hardly know if windows is great, they wouldn't notice if you replaced it as long as they have "start" "ie" and "outlook express".

Face it, most of the windows users are no different than someone who would get confused if they got a new remote where it said stand by instead of off on the remote.

Thing is, they got this on their computer, they got to know it, they will stick with it, any change, good or bad is always bad to someone who doesn't want change.

[jobezone]

I hope anyone who feels like judging Canonical or the Ubuntu Forums for using proprietary software is part of the 4% of users here who have completely Free Ubuntu installations.

You really can't compare both. Having some proprietary codec in anyone's computer isn't the same as the possibility for a proprietary infrastructure for building/translating/coordinating software becoming popular.
It's good that Canonical have promissed to open it up.

[TheCaptain]

You really can't compare both. Having some proprietary codec in anyone's computer isn't the same as the possibility for a proprietary infrastructure for building/translating/coordinating software becoming popular.
It's good that Canonical have promissed to open it up.

Yes it is, if you choose Ubuntu and install that proprietary crap you have defeated the very goal of Ubuntu.

You want to buy into that, cool, but in no way are you running a free OS if you do, not that Ubuntu is inherently free either, nothing GPL'd really is.

[Y4CcduyctJL3]

I hope anyone who feels like judging Canonical or the Ubuntu Forums for using proprietary software is part of the 4% of users here who have completely Free Ubuntu installations.

'lax buddy. i don't think anyone was being judgmental. it's just amusing is all. there is a certain irony about a community based on a philosophy of open software using a proprietary system.

[matthew]

This is a really old thread to resurrect on a topic that has been discussed more completely elsewhere...see here for the official forum statement on this issue. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176622

I'm going to close this particular thread now.