Rik Tindall wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote re: > > [Rik wrote:] > > > So the argument is, we should: > > > a) not buy gear with these components, & 'consumer strike' for > > > freedom > > > b) don't support distros not encouraging a)
That's not what I was getting at. But it's not far off what I want to discuss over on the GNUz list. (I have homework to catch up on first. But like I said, I'll start a new thread over there :^) > > That would be saying that we should not use the ubuntu that you have > > been promoting for some time now? > 'Yep'. But this is paraphrasing Tim's input. I was explaining it > further, rather than entering into such debate, just now. Rik, you wrote that "Mepis is Kubuntu with the freedom (lesson) stripped out. Consumer orientated". Now, I don't know anything about Mepis - I haven't looked at it. But I do know that Ubuntu includes non-Free parts (most distros do, including Debian and, I assume, Mepis). Ubuntu is absolutely not interested in being a Free Software distro: it's interested in being popular. But if you want to recommend an Operating System from a Free Software standpoint rather than a "consumer oriented" standpoint: gNewSense and a few others actually do make an effort to strip out non-Free parts. That is all I was trying to say. > But if people want to turn discussion into a campaign for change, and > others don't want that in their face, then the local outlet exists: > http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz Tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
