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I'm not really sure where you got this from...? In fact, whether or not it's pre-installed is irrelevant altogether.

Ubuntu comes pre-installed with Rhythmbox. Mac OS X comes pre-installed with iTunes.

But iTunes > Rhythmbox, still. It has nothing to do with whether or not it's easy to install, that's one small fragment of what I said about open source being hard to figure out which string of letters/numbers version to install.

Pre-installing packages so the user doesn't have the find and compile them on their own helps, but the utility and design of one program is still superior to the other regardless of whether it's pre-installed or not.



And what does this have to do with freedom zero? Apple can provide it's customers the freedom zero and pre-install iTunes. Freedom zero simply doesn't make software less good, it's irrelevant to software quality.




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