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Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?
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Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ? |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:14:57 +0930 |
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Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
>>
>>> Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> I think that this will unfortunately be the case. Thus resulting in a
> net loss of freedom for the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu has a fair amount
> of sway in the industry at the moment. They could have used that
> influence to pressure hardware manufacturers to release free drivers,
> but their priorities seem to be to make "Linux" "just work" with
> non-free software instead.
I think you overestimate how much leverage canonical has against
hardware companies.
kk
>
> This is all conjecture at this point. I hope it doesn't turn out as I
> envision it.
--
Karl Goetz
User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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- 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, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Mitch Wiedemann, 2007/04/13
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?,
Karl Goetz <=
- 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
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Kevin Dean, 2007/04/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?, Koh Choon Lin, 2007/04/16