Comment 778 for bug 1

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Nils <email address hidden> wrote:
>> codecs for certain multimedia formats are restricted by patents, so
> they can't be included right away and the user must confirm it's legal
> to use them in his country.
>
> i'm willing to pay some license fees

Why then do you bother with Free Software in the first place?

>> Flash is a proprietary software which also has to be installed by
> user, probably because of it's license restrictions.
>
>> I don't think I'll get in hell after death, because of using
> proprietary software (i'm an atheist anyway) I don't see any reason why
> Adobe should not want to collaborate with Canonical.

It's quite simple to get it - people bother with Ubuntu and Free
Software, because they want freedom, and that is their definition of
it.

If Adobe wants to collaborate with Canonical, Adobe must make their
software Free. If Adobe makes non-free software, Canonical won't
collaborate with Adobe.

The website http://www.gnu.org explains pretty well why software
should be free. If it doesn't convince you, then use whatever tickles
your fancy.