Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
On 14/03/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong time wrong place. Not voting for Ubuntu/Debian is the same as voting against it. In this respect it can hurt us very much. Why throw away your vote when you could vote for a group with the same philosophical and political views as us? You need to realize that the survey statistician is going to throw out the votes for FreeBSD. Do you think it's the right time and place (the freebsd-advocacy mailing list) to advise people to vote for Ubuntu instead of FreeBSD? :) I'm not Nikolas, but let me say why *I* think it's the right place: If we all vote for Ubuntu, then we increase our chances of getting hardware that isn't proprietary in the sense of only having drivers for MSWin. Also, we avoid the Microsoft tax and can put FreeBSD on it when we get it. I know that I, for instance, would probably find fault with SOMETHING the Dell installers installed whether they chose my favourite OS/distro or not. Jeff -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers. We go unsupported either way. Hmm, well I would hope that they would use hardware with open source drivers only, in which case, yes, FreeBSD would be able to take advantage. Even if, say, the OSD's are GPL'ed, that would at least allow BSD users to inquire as to the specs from the OSD developers. Jeff -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
