Hello, On 18 January 2013 08:16, Robert Kehl <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not sure you understand that I will install debian on this... > For sure I did. I thought you might have been ignorant, but now I have to agree with Hugo. Your tirade was counterproductive and useless.
> You did see the smileys? Calm down, Hugo, no need to get angry. Supporting > Google is nothing we should do, and numbers count, even if you do not use > Googles software. So, one should not buy Googles products if possible. That attitude is, of course, also counterproductive. One shoult not support Google's products that are non-free or market leaders. However, getting subsidised hardware and then not using Google's OS on it is actually harmful to Google's attempts to produce half-free software compilations branded as OSes. Furthermore, I would like to point out that Google supports several Free Software organisations (including FSFE), a lot of FS development by providing Google Code infrastructure and offers quite a few FS packages; thus, Google is not by far the worst option. Also on the pro side, one can be pretty sure that GNU/Linux has the hardware support necessary to keep the Chromebook nicely running. Not many systems guarantee that. Personally I am using a 15.4" Asus laptop that is going to turn 4 soon and that laptop has better wireless support on Windows (not that I have it installed) than GNU/Linux. Cheers, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et) <[email protected]> <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
