[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

ahja
so the bbc should have a link to ubuntu etc
from their page,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm


                   [george]

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From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:37 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

> There is no mention of Fedora, SUSE, Debian or many other popular distros 
> either.
>
> It says: "These are the GNU/Linux distributions we know of which only 
> include and only propose free software. They reject non-free applications, 
> non-free programming platforms, non-free drivers, or non-free firmware 
> “blobs”."
>
> It also says: "We do not have links to web sites of the well-known 
> GNU/Linux system distributions, or to the well-known BSD system 
> distributions, because all those sites explicitly describe, and facilitate 
> access to, various non-free programs."
>
> So it is obvious why Ubuntu and the other popular distros aren't included.
>
>
> dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
>> i clicked something there and got to
>> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
>> where i found no mention of ubunut
>> which is the most populist unix distribution
>> why?
>> is there some linux ego war going on between www.gnu.org/ and ubuntu.org
>> ??
>>
>> why dont they sort it out!
>>
>>                   [george]
>>
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>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
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>>
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>> From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:52 PM
>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Subject: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.
>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Been it a bit quiet recently, so thought I would post this.
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
>>>
>>> This link is from the main BBC Technology section, ie
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
>>>
>>> I found myself reading it with interest, before discovering that it was 
>>> written by Richard Stallman, a huge OSS advocate since the 70's.
>>>
>>> Well worth a read his item on Bill Gates ...
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
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