Re: [Trisquel-users] Simple guide to make happy a GNU user

[insink71]

Free means no proprietary stuff that could control you;  You control your  
system.  Since Debian is being thrown around as an example, well.. it has  
proprietary blobs in the kernel, it links to non-free software and even has  
non-free packages in their repositories.  Could you elect to recompile the  
kernel and remove said proprietary blobs?  Sure.  Could you not install  
software that wasn't GNU?  sure.  Could you avoid proprietary drivers like  
the plague?  yep.  Problem is most end-users lack the knowledge to recompile  
the kernel, make system edits w/o totally crashing system, and I suppose they  
take the non-free advertisement as "that's what makes the world go round."   
FSF sees things differently than most.  I feel blessed a group of devs has  
made this product for us;  It really is a lot of work [and if you don't  
believe me.. try Linux From Scratch sometime ;) ]  Free is controlling your  
system, but nobody is controlling you from FSF heh.  You want to go the way  
of the masses, go on.  If you choose to view the world a bit differently and  
want to not be waylaid by something that was hidden inside a kernel blob one  
day.. well then give GNU software [and the FSF] a fair shake.

Regards,
Rob