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Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ? |
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:38:19 -0400 |
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Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>> Having a fully free official
>>> Ubuntu variant will also mean there's more attention drawn to the ideals
>>> of free software, and it'll probably be easier to find help for any
>>> problems as there'll be more people using a completely free Ubuntu
>>> variant. However, I still prefer using a distribution which has freedom
>>> as it's main goal.
>> If I read the announcement correctly, Canonical is following what
>> Linspire had done - releasing two distribution, one non-free and one
>> free. And looking at history, I guess more would download and use the
>> former than the latter.
>
> My conspiracy theory is this:
>
> Ubuntu is under a lot of pressure (from freedom-oblivious users) to
> release a much less free (more non-free drivers) distribution. There
> are some in the Ubuntu community who would like this not to happen. For
> them they are producing a token Free distro.
All right, except it will only be token distro if no one uses it.
Matt Flaschen
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, (continued)
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/04/12
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Koh Choon Lin, 2007/04/12
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/04/12
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Guy Johnston, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Koh Choon Lin, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Koh Choon Lin, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Mitch Wiedemann, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?,
Matthew Flaschen <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Mitch Wiedemann, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Karl Goetz, 2007/04/15
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Kevin Dean, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Karl Goetz, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell, 2007/04/14
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Andrew Wigglesworth, 2007/04/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell, 2007/04/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Mitch Wiedemann, 2007/04/16