On 18/07/2012, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Tuxta<gently and without being rude or stirring flames in any way> utter >> crap. > > Really?? Doesn't seem gentle and without being rude. Just stating you are not > rude does not make it so. > Appears very much like you are taking it personally that my values are > different from yours, therefore I am wrong/deceived/bragging. Saying things > such as "If you were really so passionate ... " *is* flamebait, and *is* rude. >> If you want to sit locked in your dark tower crying freedom then don't >> install anything you dont like on any mother board you choose. > > Partially correct. I will indeed sit in my dark tower crying freedom and not > install anything I don't like, and I don't see how you have the right to deny > me of (or ridicule me for) that .... but .... > I was hoping there may be hardware that would also work while I sit in my > tower. I was hoping I could have a functioning machine while not enabling > non-free repositories. I guess you can't help there. > I also am not forcing you to do the same, nor at any point did I suggest you > shouldn't hold your own values, or that you were wrong, so I don't understand > your need to push your ideas onto me.
See the current debate between FSF, ubuntu and fedora about 'Secure Boot' and the mandatory Windows 7 certification so every new motherboard will be proprietary and require proprietary sw to boot. So you may take up gardening or such, or write and install you own bios instead of using EFI. When I was young I was criticised for viewing the world as black or white. It may be painful and troubling but I now see that the world has oh so many shades of grey too. Yours is a black & white question where the answer is grey [snip] James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
