David, please tell me you weren't part of this...

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Giles Orr wrote:
...
> As for the Debian-Ubuntu debate ... I'm also an Ubuntu user.  I used
> Debian for a couple years, and continue to use it on a couple other
> systems.  They're both excellent.  Ubuntu puts a user-friendly face on
> an occasionally difficult-to-use but very good distro.  Debian is
> upset that Ubuntu has hijacked all their hard work.  But the work of
> both is under the GPL, anyone can borrow their work wholesale.  It's
> something you need to accept when you sign on to the GPL.  Someone may
> yet "hijack" Ubuntu

    They already have; gNewSense, <http://www.gnewsense.org>, is a
    distro based on Ubuntu with all non-free components removed.

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