1. Your not following what I'm saying. If you waste time trying to get people
to understand your view point who aren't listening you might as well be
talking to a brick wall. It's better to spend time addressing the problems
which are holding people back from being able (due to lack of competency with
technology) to adopt a 100% free software operating system. There are more
people who will listen and get it- but not be able to figure it out.
2. We ship with whatever operating system a user chooses. Our main goal is to
get people off of hardware dependent on proprietary software. Long term I
think we'll see more Trisquel users as a result. I'm pretty confident we
already have more Trisquel users today than ever before because of the work
we've done at making it easier to adopt/market/etc.
What you don't want to do is put non-tech savvy users in front of Trisquel as
there first distribution. Particularly not without a lot of one-on-one
hand-holding. It won't work to there advantage. It'll be off-putting and they
will get the idea "GNU/Linux is hard" and that it's not adoptable by non-tech
savvy users. If you put them in front of a distribution that isn't 100% free
there is a high chance it'll work for about 50-80% of the population today.
From there people will adopt Trisquel and they will have an easier time doing
so because there is less to figure out compared to any 100% proprietary
system. If they fail at it at this point they'll still be better off because
they'll only likely be returning to something that isn't 100% proprietary (be
it Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, or some other distribution which includes some
proprietary components).
To get my point across how many people here went from a completely
proprietary operating system to a 100% free one? I bet there isn't a single
user that didn't first adopt a distribution which contained some proprietary
software.
The next question I have is how many people here went from a computer with
non-free BIOS to one with a free BIOS and no other non-free software? The
answer to this question is likely zero.
Everything is a processes and we should focus on what can be done to move
things forward. Not waste time talking to a brick wall. If your talking to
people who are listening- that's not wasting time.
