>Debian now includes proprietary A/V codecs and flash? Are mp3 and dvdcss now
obsolete enough to be given away? Really?! This is generally not how I have
heard things work;
I once heard a purple monkey broke into a store and robbed it from 5 kg of
bananas. It wasn't true.
Debian by default is as libre as Trisquel. You would need to edit
/etc/apt/sources.list and add manually the non-free and the contrib
repositories to install a proprietary piece of software.
>I'm not too worried about apt-get installing.... But what is the point in a
free distribution if you turn around and add restricted codecs to make most
things most people use work?
This doesn't make sense. All the things you were talking about work perfectly
fine on the defaut Debian, without having to install anything. The few things
that might not work are easily solvable by installing free software from the
main (the one and only repo enabled by default) repo.
>I am not condoning the status quo or meaning to pick on Debian/Triquel.
Maybe I'm just not thinking far enough out of the box(cubicle): the internet
itself is a spent force, rapidly degenerating into the cash cow of looter
corporados pushing repackaged Home Shopping and PPV movie junk. How many
times are we gonna rebuy The White Album?
ok..
>Perhaps something like Outernet connecting computers like Purism Libre 15
could be the future of truly free computing.
Purism laptops are a scam. They are "free" as any laptop with a wifi usb
dongle that works without the related proprietary blob loaded in the kernel.
You can find more info on it on this very same forum.
