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> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology. >

> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology. > Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades". About 10? That's years, not decades. Even 5 years ago they were well under 5% weren't they? I'm glad to hear that OSX suits you, that's fine. What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. Personally I find that both Unity and OSX have DEs that really get in my way without a lot of tweaking, but both can be made to give a reasonable experience. I wouldn't have said anything, and just chalked it up as someone making an opinionated comment that I disagree with if it weren't for the ridiculous line about Ubuntu's ideology being hopeless.

m-r-a-m 13y ago
> What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. I might be wrong, but I think he's talking about a future in which Canonical is forced to remove features from Ubuntu due to patents. Whereas Apple would just pay the licensing fees. I don't see this happening because software patents don't exist in most of the world. The worst thing that could happen is they wouldn't be able to sell phones in the U.S. and other patent-crazy territories.
- josteink 13y ago
  > Whereas Apple would just pay the licensing fees. More like Apple would be the one firing the lawsuits. I find it troublesome to see so many otherwise talented hackers chop off their own feet by supporting the top company fuelling the patent-war and undermining the software-industry as a whole.
  - mwfunk 13y ago
    You are truly a delight.