On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Lonnie Olson <li...@kittypee.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Grant Shipley <gship...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When people got mad at Canonical for their underhanded sharing of data > with > > amazon, a lot of people left that camp. Granted, it also had a lot to do > > with people generally hating Unity and finally realizing that canonical > is > > not a good open source citizen. > > > > I find that Ubuntu is more in use by people who like linux but don't care > > so much about running a completely free open source OS. It's the same > > reason we have a seen a mass exodus to OSX. People understand the > > technical merits of a linux/unix based system and prefer convenience over > > philosophy. Please don't mistake this comment as something bad, it > isn't. > > People are and should be free to use whatever they want that suits their > > personal desires and goals. Just trying to explain what I have seen in > the > > linux space over the last 10-15 years. > > It is true that Ubuntu isn't a completely Free Software distribution. > It includes lots of non-free firmware blobs and such. > However. Linux Mint as even more non-Free Software included in it by > default. It includes all kinds of bad crap like Flash, MP3, and other > full multimedia support. It's actually worse for the Free Software > movement. If you truly care about Free Software, you should be using > one of the approved distributions. > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html Thanks for link. As someone who works at Red Hat, I should probably know this but -- I wonder why Fedora isn't listed. A distro that is based on fedora is. I wonder if it has to do with Fedora not calling it gnu/linux instead of Linux. AFAIK, we only ship complete 100% FOSS packages. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
