Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > 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.
All right, except it will only be token distro if no one uses it. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
