[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu: the Microsoft of open source?

[William Tracy]

On Jan 13, 2008 7:24 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jake at nblug.org> wrote:
> I think most of the criticism of Ubuntu derives from it being a for
> profit fork of Debian.

*shrug* I haven't had to pay any money to use it.

> Furthermore, it isn't DFSG "free" and this upsets
> many people in the Free software / Open source communities.

What specifically is in the main Ubuntu distribution that is not
DFSG-compliant? Supposedly there are some firmware binaries included
that are not open, but I'm not aware of anything else.

The Ubuntu website and forum certainly use closed software internally,
but that's a different can of worms.

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