&gt; Add to that, that they do not care about copyright and license issues and just ship their ISOs with pre-installed Oracle Java and Adobe Flash packages and several multimedia codec packages which infringe patents and may therefore not be distributed freely at all in countries like the US.<p>Hmm, that was actually one of major selling points for Mint around me - it was the distro that &quot;worked&quot;, with relevant software, codecs and drivers being preinstalled and not crippled due to strange laws on the other side of the ocean.