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Ubuntu Locks netbook OS almost as bad as TIVO
The move to not release the ISO for Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix seems to lock in the operating system to the hardware it is preinstalled to ship with. Although it not as bad as TIVO not reciprocating to the open source community by requiring a digital certificate to install modified software on its hardware. this political move is comparable since it utilises the contributions of the open source community, but doesn’t make those contributions easily accessible to the community.