Jacob Maynard wrote: > Right, but we're talking about 8 months since Novell turned coat. In 8 > months, can all of the free developers (I refrain from saying open-source > because of the separate ideals, though open-source could join in) get > together and enhance the capabilities of a truly free system to the point > that there is no need for proprietary anything and is not uncomfortable to > switch to from Windows systems? I have no doubts that it COULD happen, I > just don't think that it WILL happen. Given time and a clear objective, > plus a worldwide collaboration, a system could be made to fit these > guidelines. But we have to be realistic about it. > > So, if another company does this in another 8 months, we're in even bigger > trouble. Our timeline gets shortened to develop a distribution that will > encourage the general populace to turn from Windows. And we have to have > that to keep GNU/Linux free and accomplish our objectives. > > Jacob > > in my own opinion, we already have the systems one of them is gNewSense what we *do* need is for people to develop and reverse engineer the drivers and groups of activist throwing a lot of pressure to company's, and when I say pressure I am not talking about sending them emails, I'm talking about real activism, in front of their buildings and such, this has worked well for other movements.
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