Am 20.04.2010 10:22, schrieb Graziano: > I think we should try to achieve freedom when it is possible.
Yes, definitely. I don't think our opinions differ here. :) > What I see, instead, is free software activists installing ubuntu and then > giving up without explaiing the four freedoms, the philosophy behind the > GNU operating system and the fact that ubuntu is not a fully free software > distro. But the first thing is not Ubuntus fault but rather "just"(?) a problem of the activists involved, isn't it? I mean, explaining the "four freedoms" is something that has to happen in any case, not? Even running a "completely software libre" platform, people suddenly could come up with the idea to, in example, run VirtualBox and a Windows installation inside of that. This kind of "user education" is required no matter how free the system to start with initially was/is. > Fully free software GNU/Linux distributions are here now. > Let's try to install, push, explain those ones instead of just "installing > ubuntu" first, would you? In most cases - yes, and yet I would like to make this depending upon the very user and situation. I still consider the Ubuntu Philosophy a good entry point into that there is more about "software libre" than just downloading free bits off the internet. Even while the Ubuntu Philosophy is not really what "software libre" is all about, it might give some user completely new to that kind of approach (and eventually considering software just another "product") an easy-on first contact point for learning that there eventually is more to it, and there is more to it one should actually care about... K. -- Kristian Rink * http://pictorial.zimmer428.net # [email protected] "What was once thought can never be unthought." (Duerrenmatt - 'Die Physiker') _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
