On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 10:23 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > > > 2009/1/18 Daniel Nathan Booy <[email protected]> > That would be great but it would not "help Ubuntu > become a more > full member of the free software community". How would > it do > that? > > > By making it depend _less_ on proprietary software than it > presently > does, Ubuntu becomes _more_ free. > > Seems fairly straightforward, wouldn't you say? > > > I would say it is a very small step. I don't think their ideals have > changed. It wouldn't matter what they would do if the direction they > would head would be freedom. The direction they head is functionality. > This could swerve them to any side upon convinience and not freedom. > Convinience is what has moved them towards the liberation of > Launchpad. Convinience could move them towards the creation of more > privative software. > This isn't a small step at all. Launchpad is a really great service that has the potential to be a more _convenient_ place to host software than Sourceforge even (IMO), and now it's free under one of the most freedom-protecting licenses available.
Canonical didn't do this out of convenience. If it was convenient to do, they wouldn't have a deadline six months in the future. They did this because the free software community asked them to, and they cooperated. Regardless of the reasons they might have had, a large piece of very useful software is very free now, and that's not something to dismiss.
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