Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation/Publicity help needed.

[chris]

While I think it isn't a bad idea there should be some caution in  
recommending a distribution or free operating system which isn't going to  
satisfy the majority of potential users. While it is certainly something to  
get people to check out your less technical counterpart is going to try it,  
fail, and refuse to touch it ever again. Which sort of goes back to why  
Richard Stallman doesn't like non-free distributions. It results in more  
non-free software being developed.

A good example: Synaptic is now releasing non-free code for critical hardware  
going into newer laptops. You may have issues using your Touchpad to its full  
potential. If the GNU/Linux community was smaller rather than saying yes to  
non-free software there wouldn't be an incentive to release non-free code.  
Manufacturers would be forced to release free code, release partial code, or  
simply not release code at all.