A few months ago we ran a poll about the most important non-free Linux apps. We had over 8,000 votes in that poll and we consider the results pretty interesting. Interesting enough to push Linux's market share if a distro capitalized on them?
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Member since:2006-07-15
Indication? Do you know statistics? Maybe not ... indicative data - okay ... but where is the base for this indication? If you don't present this information, it's obsolete hype.
>The idea I present on the editorial existed in my mind for YEARS now, because I recognized the need for it. Most of these votes are nothing more than hype, to push people toward a certain direction, to make an indication.
Open Source should be realistic, it should not do the same mistake like commercial software. Think of vaporware.
And remember Open Source isn't just about "I want", "give me something", Open Source is about "to give something", "to participate". The latter is almost forgotten and if you can't give something the "Opensource way", donate some money.
With "you" I do think in a common way.
Member since:2005-07-06
The poll did not ask whether for example Ubuntu should include non-free in the install, it merely asked which non-free software is important to the users.
I need flash. So yesterday, after installing FC6, one of the first things i did was install flash. And mplayer, ntfs and stuff from the livna repo.
But i do not think Fedora should include these. Without a strong focus on free software, there wouldn't have been a Fedora or an Ubuntu now.
If users really wanted non-free, why is it that Ubuntu is the big name in Linux, and not for example Linspire? And why isn't there a (very) popular distro that includes non-free software, based on Ubuntu (or Fedora)?
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2005-06-28
So what? It is an INDICATION. And besides, we all KNOW (before and after the poll took place) that these apps/drivers is what most NEW users WANT from Linux. My editorial is not based on the results of the poll, it is using it as indicative data. The idea I present on the editorial existed in my mind for YEARS now, because I recognized the need for it.