Koh Choon Lin wrote: >> Having a fully free official >> Ubuntu variant will also mean there's more attention drawn to the ideals >> of free software, and it'll probably be easier to find help for any >> problems as there'll be more people using a completely free Ubuntu >> variant. However, I still prefer using a distribution which has freedom >> as it's main goal. > > If I read the announcement correctly, Canonical is following what > Linspire had done - releasing two distribution, one non-free and one > free.
Freespire is /not/ free as in freedom. It has a lot of proprietary software. Supposedly, there is an OSS edition, but I wouldn't be quick to assume that that's free as in freedom either. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
