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. And looking at history, I guess more would download and use the > former than the latter.
My conspiracy theory is this: Ubuntu is under a lot of pressure (from freedom-oblivious users) to release a much less free (more non-free drivers) distribution. There are some in the Ubuntu community who would like this not to happen. For them they are producing a token Free distro. The net change, in my dim view of the situation, will be that many more people are using non-free software with Ubuntu. I'll stick with gNewSense. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
