If moving people to Ubuntu in China can get more people off of IE6, then I
am all for it: http://www.ie6countdown.com :-)
If someone installs Ubuntu and chooses to stick with the main and universe
repos, then it is pretty close to free software besides the kernel, firmware,
and a few iffy packages with questionable licensing.
Many of you condem Ubuntu like it is on the same level as OSX or Windows, but
it is still way more open. Its just that Canonical wants to support it on as
many platforms as possible and a non-free driver in the kernel or the
firmware has to exist for that purpose.
Why does it exist? Because too many people use existing hardware, don't buy
specifically libre hardware, or opt for GNU/Linux desktop companies like
System76 that include non-free bits. Canonical doesn't want them to say "oh
Ubuntu is broken and sucks" because they chose to blacklist a potentially
non-free bit and they choose Windows instead out of comfort.
