Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Ubuntu malware: what to do?

[Jay Cassano]

I'm going to go against the grain here slightly and argue that we should 
redouble efforts to get this *out* of Ubuntu rather than abandoning 
Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a key entry point for a lot of people into the world 
of free software, even if they are not stalwart defenders of it. I, for 
one, wouldn't know anything about free software or the FSF if it weren't 
for starting out with Ubuntu.

This is not at all to belittle the concerns people have expressed about 
Ubuntu, as I share them completely and will be encouraging my family 
members to move away from Ubuntu. But for me it's a question of thinking 
strategically about what's best for the free software movement - and I 
think having a popular, accessible, easy-to-use distribution like Ubuntu 
is immensely beneficial to our movement and we should therefore work 
within Ubuntu to change it rather than jettisoning it.

Jay


On 12/08/2012 12:02 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> The solution is simple. Don't use Ubuntu. Tell other people to not
> use Ubuntu, and explain why they shouldn't. When speaking
> about free software, don't speak of Ubuntu.
>
> Free software is about user freedom. If it doesn't properly respect
> your freedom to choose what you want to share -- your privacy -- it
> isn't free software.
>
> Theo de Raadt had it right when he identified Canonical as «traitors
> to the cause, mostly in it for the money and power.»
>
> - -- 
> Alexander
> alexander@plaimi.net
> http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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