Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 13, 2007 1:35 UTC (Fri) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172) [Link]

(Disclosure: I am a member of Ubuntu's Community Council although I don't work for Canonical)

This is nothing like the RHEL/Fedora split. That split was done largely for monetary reasons and to help separate community from commercial. The Ubuntu project has expressly disavowed any such separation. Thus Gobuntu, which was created for ideological reasons, will be only a compliment to the existing Ubuntu releases.

Posted Jul 13, 2007 2:00 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

The floodgates have already cracked open, admittedly by partial
necessity. Have you noticed the systems integrators (most famously Dell,
but also smaller places like System76 and Puget Systems) offering Ubuntu
preinstalled? Have you noticed the video cards they offer on those
machines?

Posted Jul 13, 2007 4:17 UTC (Fri) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]

> Does this smack anyone else as a REHL/Fedora move?
> We're free! Look over here! While they load the *real*
> product full of proprietary crap.

Excuse me? Neither RHEL nor Fedora has any proprietary crap. 100% FOSS in both products.

Posted Jul 14, 2007 14:12 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Name some proprietary packages in RHEL. And if you can't, then don't claim that it is "full of proprietary crap".