Jimmy Frydkær Jensen wrote: > Hi > > I just don't get it - Why are people displeased with the fact that some > drivers in Ubuntu are closed-source?
Because we believe in software that is free as in freedom (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), which includes available source code. > In my oppinion we should be happy that those drivers are supplied to us > in the first place. Proprietary drivers are useless for a libre operating system > Our pride as Linux-geeks is that our system runs on even > very old computers That is not /our/ pride. We focus on ethical advantages, not technical ones. > She choose Ubuntu Linux over Vista, that's the importend thing, isn't > it? No, the important thing is freedom. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
