Agree 100%. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin
-------- Original Message -------- From: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 11:29 PM To: [email protected] CC: Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] A good place to buy a Linux-libre Laptop in the UK >I totally agree with you. This isn't just an issue for libre GNU/Linux users >though. Non-free software negatively impacts everybody and the Ubuntu >population is (unkowningly) doing themselves and everybody else a diservice >by supporting non-free software- particularly where there are decent free >software friendly solutions available. > >I like what Debian has done in recent releases. They stopped shipping the >non-free firmware with the distribution even though there is still support >for it. I think ultimately what we should be doing as distributors of >GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) is releasing software that is more >freedom friendly and point people to freedom friendly hardware. It may not be >the right answer although it at least builds the demand. > >I think that is largely what Trisquel has done (all a bit more extreme- for >the right reasons) and even while I don't think Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or other >distributions are going to impliment it to this extent there is still room to >work with them where the goals overlap (freedom for support / ease of use >/etc - rather than ethical). > >
