Windows 7 Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Good and bad

Only thing I'll disagree with here is the part about media. I've never had an issue playing a DVD, and I've never had to do anything even remotely illegal. Yes you will have to download codecs, and there is nothing about those codecs that makes them legal on Windows but not on Linux. I'me sure the pinheads at Microsoft would like the masses to believe that, but it's just not the case.

I couldn't imagine if that media transparency and neutrality didn't exist. On the back of each DVD case you may start to see FBI warning: Playing this DVD on X/Y/Z brand DVD player is unlawful and punishable by$500,000 fine and up to 5 years in Microsoft international tech support calling center.

The FCC is attempting to guarantee that we have the same transparency on the internet as a whole communication medium, but some, not all ISPs are trying to paint Net neutrality as the big bad wolf coming to eat grandma. The other ISPs are quietly sitting on the side lines.

If net nutrality isn't passed, this is what Verizon's website will look like if AT&T is your ISP:

404 Not found
The page you a loading
is blocked because it's belongs
to a direct competitor of your ISP,
Please contact your representative
and thank them for not enacting
Net neutrality.

djarrum said:

Only thing I'll disagree with here is the part about media. I've never had an issue playing a DVD, and I've never had to do anything even remotely illegal. Yes you will have to download codecs, and there is nothing about those codecs that makes them legal on Windows but not on Linux. I'me sure the pinheads at Microsoft would like the masses to believe that, but it's just not the case.

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why aren't these codecs included in Ubuntu 9.10 ?

ickymay said:

why aren't these codecs included in Ubuntu 9.10 ?

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I can't think of a windows installation i've done that didn't require downloading and adding some codecs. Klite or CCC.