Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >> >>> Koh Choon Lin wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> > > I think that this will unfortunately be the case. Thus resulting in a > net loss of freedom for the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu has a fair amount > of sway in the industry at the moment. They could have used that > influence to pressure hardware manufacturers to release free drivers, > but their priorities seem to be to make "Linux" "just work" with > non-free software instead.
I think you overestimate how much leverage canonical has against hardware companies. kk > > This is all conjecture at this point. I hope it doesn't turn out as I > envision it. -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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