2013/5/19 Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <[email protected]> > Dnia sobota, 18 maja 2013 o 00:03:41 Manuel Palomo Duarte napisał(a): > > As I understand the interest of Linux.com (ergo Linux Foundation) is > > promoting Linux in all its applications and uses. Of course, preferring > > those related to freedom, but linux is just linux > > I strongly disagree with that. Free software has strong ethical values > enshrined, it's not just Yet Another Engineering Paradigm. Personal > freedom is > crucial, and any use of free software to curtail such freedom should in my > book be shunned upon. >
I'm not saying that position is good or bad (personally I also don't agree with it). I'm just saying that Linux Foundation is not explicitly meant for it. If you read the "About us" section [1], they are concern about "the open source development community to ensure Linux remains free and technically advanced". They talk about open-source and use free in an ambiguous way (not saying "freedom"). [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about > > If it's not, what's the actual virtue of using GNU/Linux? Why use > GNU/Linux, > if it offers no real advantage (freedom-wise) compared to closed OSes? > I think that there are many reasons to use GNU/Linux without any freedom concern: cost saving, stability and so on. Again I insist that from my personal point of view freedom is more important than any of them. > > There are many levels on which users are being closed in walled gardens and > spied upon. Protection of privacy is a crucial issue of our time, and > while I > agree that Linux.com doesn't have to actively fight to defend privacy, some > sensitivity about the issue should be IMHO visible in what is published > there. > > Promoting Google, one of the largest IT companies and most one of the most > dangerous to privacy, shows that such sensitivity is lacking there. Which > is a > pity. > > Google doesn't need our promotion, it can (and does) promote itself pretty > well. Rather than Google, why don't we promote more libre and privacy-aware > companies, like Jolla Mobile? > I thinks that question must be addressed to the Linux Foundation steering committee ... > > -- > Pozdrawiam > Michał "rysiek" Woźniak > > Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania > -- Prof. Manuel Palomo Duarte, PhD Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods group (SPI&FM). Degree Coordinator for Computer Science. Department of Computer Science. Escuela Superior de Ingenieria. C/ Chile, 1 11002 - Cadiz (Spain) University of Cadiz http://neptuno.uca.es/~mpalomo Tlf: (+34) 956 015483 Mobile phone: (+34) 649 280080 Mobile phone from University network: 45483 Fax: (+34) 956 015139 Aviso legal: Este mensaje (incluyendo los ficheros adjuntos) puede contener información confidencial, dirigida a un destinatario y objetivo específico. Si usted no es el destinatario del mismo le pido disculpas, y le pido que elimine este correo, evitando cualquier divulgación, copia o distribución de su contenido, así como desarrollar o ejecutar cualquier acción basada en el mismo. -- Legal Notice: This message (including the attached files) contains confidential information, directed to a specific addressee and objective. In case you are not the addressee of the same, I apologize. And I ask you to delete this mail, and not to resend, copy or distribute its content, as well as develop or execute any action based on the same.
