On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:40:46 Matthew Flaschen wrote: > 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
All trolling and endless debate aside, I think that for the purposes of this mailing list I would say that the point is encouraging folks to not choose Vista. The in-fighting and bickering is really getting quite old, and it would be best if we could focus on the topic at hand. You don't like Ubuntu. I get it. Move on. -- ~ Michael D. Stemle, Jr. <>< (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
