On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip] > Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on > Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user > experience[3]. > > [3] The whole concept of 'restricted extras' is detrimental to distro > usability, as is having a separate package-manager-frontend for > installing them, as is a separate repository which is disabled by > default. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but that really didn't start with them. *Debian* has it in a far worse way. As an example, say you're in my position and want Squid running as a website accelerator, and you want SSL support. Squid can do this. Except the binary packages Debian builds have SSL disabled because of fears of incompatible licenses between Squid and OpenSSL. -- :wq
