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Old 2007-07-19, 02:46   Link #20
grey_moon
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Originally Posted by hobbes_fan View Post
I wonder what will happen to Freespire now?
If GPLv3 prevents the bundle-ling in of closed source binaries, I guess they will have to package all of the closed source stuff off separately and let the user then add it in later. I suppose it would break the works out of the box package....

I'm sure the the distros will find some way around it, but I hope that its not at the cost of ease of use. Just when Linux is starting to loose it's hobbiest label too..

One example is how they handle codecs, they can't ship them, but it ain't hard to install them
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