Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:20:58 -0600 From: "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] The truth about Purism Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
[email protected] wrote: >> What if Purism is a set up by people like Microsoft or those anti-free > people? In effect, it pisses people of and in time reduces free software > supporters. Hmmmm....... >Claims like this require evidence. I don't see the evidence that "Purism is a set up by people like Microsoft or those anti-free people". Could include a RYF certification? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open-source_hardware&oldid=648931184#RYF_certification If you know of some, I'd like to see that evidence. I also don't see the evidence that people in the market for an FSF Respects Your Freedom-qualifying laptop are fairly characterized as "pissed off" or that support for free software is reduced by Purism, regardless of what comes of the effort. I see the work those against software freedom do. But that work is typically clumsy and usually involves the greenwashing "open source" movement (see Brad Kuhn's recent talk[1] for more on this). I don't think any serious anti-freedom zealot like software proprietors would frame their work around software freedom when the open source movement has had some popularity; that movement has convinced some developers to relinquish not only their software freedom but the software freedom of their users and those of users of derivative works. Finally, it appears to me to be easier to assemble and sell laptops that don't even try to address a user's freedoms to control their computer. Companies make a great deal of money doing exactly this every day. [1] http://mirror.slingshot.co.nz/pub/linux.conf.au/2015/Case_Room_2/Thursday and /Considering_the_Future_of_Copyleft_How_Will_The_Next_Generation_Perceive_GPL.webm http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2015/Case_Room_2/Thursday/Considering_the_Future_of_Copyleft_How_Will_The_Next_Generation_Perceive_GPL.webm are a couple of mirrors of this talk. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users End of Trisquel-users Digest, Vol 68, Issue 119 ***********************************************
