[lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff

[// ravi]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
>> This is by far the common case; you can (and did) list a small  
>> number of items that people get worked up about, but if a guy like  
>> Doug doesn't seem bothered by the tradeoff presented by iTunes, I  
>> think you're pretty far from establishing the political angle as  
>> being that important.
>
> Re: that political angle. Excuse my cynicism, but I think a lot of  
> people who kvetch about paying to download stuff from iTunes or  
> paying for software are more exercised by the paying part than the  
> political part.

Which line is, as already pointed out, a diversion. The important  
point is the type of activity that Free Software is.


> As I've complained before, OpenOffice blows. My 9-year-old version  
> of Office is hundreds of times better.

Whatever. ;-)

	--ravi