Holger Levsen: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:38:34PM -0400, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> My issue is with purisms incredibly dishonest marketing, their pressure >> campaigns on the FSF, their insulting of their competitors - not their >> existence in general or the practice of selling of laptops that are only >> slightly more free than a dell. > > Taiidan, this is the qubes-users mailing list, ment to discuss issues > and joys with Qubes OS. Whatever you think of Purism is really not > suited that well on this list. If you want to educate people, I'd like > to suggest you take it elsewhere, either private or some other public > list or setup a wiki page or whatever. > > If everybody beats up their favorite horse on this list, this list > will become a lot more noisy and less useful for everyone. For example I > don't think using Thunderbird for reading email is a reasonable choice > for users interested in reasonable security, but I wont mention that in > every (not even any...) thread discussing thunderbird. Same can be said > about many many topics.
Hi Holger, I actually kinda like that Taiidan brings up these issues once in a while. Whether or not someone agrees with them about the purism issue, talking about this stuff on the list causes people to think more about security/privacy, which is a good thing. I mean yea maybe a really lengthy in depth discussion could be taken off list, but I think conversations that aren't completely strictly on topic (security/privacy in general, or free/libre hardware, instead of qubes-specific) can be good because it gets people thinking about these issues. And your thoughts on thunderbird would be useful too, not everyone has to agree :) -Jackie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1e2433ee-97d6-1d1b-683c-c83b4ca232f4%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
