However the reason you are saying that Ubuntu is shipping non-free software is not known to me (well, the only place, where I see non-free software might be, is device drivers, but that is a fault of hardware vendors. And it is reasonable to use them, isn't it?
I don't remember which programs in Ubuntu are non-free; perhaps they are device drivers. Someone else recently said that's what they are, so that seems likely. The reason why distributing non-free device drivers is harmful is that distributing any non-free program says, in effect, "Non-free programs aren't so bad." After all, if you thought it was really bad to install a non-free program, you wouldn't suggest it to others. And if using a non-free device driver is acceptable because we call it the hardware companies' fault, then what about using Sun's Java libraries and saying that's Sun's fault, or using Adobe's e-book reader with DRM and saying that's Adobe's fault, or RealPlayer's spyware-player and saying that's RealPlayer's fault, etc? Of course we want GNU/Linux to be successful, but why is that goal important? Because our system is a way to escape from non-free software. Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a long digression from the topic of planning GUADEC 2007. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list