On 2016-04-29 at 14:21:12 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > that's fine, because it's outside of the remit of the company that > got the RYF Certificate. skype is *not* in a GNU repository, or in > the debian repository, or in any repository at all. it's not
actually, skype is in one ubuntu repository, which if I'm not mistaken at least trisquel users could add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype 3rd party repositories for other proprietary software are often available and adding them usually requires just about the same level of tech-expertise as adding non-free to debian (or to gNewSense). > i don't really like to use the words "idiots" - let's call them > "average end-users" instead (examples include "grandma" or "busy > secretary" or "7-year-old" or "49-year-old farm mechanic and cattle > breeder") actually, 'grandma' tends to be quite discriminatory and offensive, considering that a woman can easily be of grandma age and still be an IT professional (probably near retirement, but not necessarily). > average end-users simply cannot cope with the "jumping through hoops" > - they haven't got time. if they really need to, they'll go buy a > windows PC. or a mac. and that's fine. we're not catering to them, > and neither is the FSF. so it is fine for anybody who is not a tech expert to be forced to buy a mainstream spying device, while software freedom is just for people who can afford spending their time jumping through hoops? -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
