->The free software movement fails when users embrace proprietary whenever it
brings a little practical convenience
Little practice convenience? My new laptop is smaller, lighter, more fast,
with more battery life, etc, etc. And I need to work/study now not tomorrow.
Which can be of more practical convenience?
we all know that in almost new laptops Trisquel fails to work one way or
another. In this one lenovo x220 laptop it was (at first) the wireless thing,
but then was also the bluetooth not working and (forgot to mention also) the
mouse pointer was very unstable, always shaking,etc. I had wait very time for
the two wireless adapters that at last doesn't work; wasting more time
waiting for another (with the risk of failling to) and resolving the new
problems? I don't think so... There are things with more priority than using
free software in my life.
->why would manufacturer ship free firmware if almost all users accept
proprietary firmware (and the malware it probably includes)?
I thing that is a lost battle! Even if there are some purists here in the
forum, I ask how many of us don't use smartphone, or have a google account,
see youtube,etc, etc. In general with the risk of using proprietary firmware
some way or another? Yesterday with is threat in the forum:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-youtube-dlhtml5-video-everywhere-run-nonfree-js
we all came to know that even a free project like youtube-dl (that is part of
the Trisquel repos) possible uses non-free js! Have we so sure that other
projects in the free software repos don't use proprietary software? who is
checking if there are no time for it?
At the end is just conceptual, if somebody tell me 'hey use this, is free
software', I just accept, in principle! I can't do much: or I'll trust or not
trust. But I will never have time to confirm if it is or not, because we all
have limited time, limited personnel,limited resources, and limited
knowledge.
But this works for big company’s that use non free software too, even if
they have more personnel, more knowledge and more time; at the end they too
have a limit, and have to make choices. They can't spy us all, because if
they do it they would risk the bankruptcy or have to change their trade to
maybe espionage, or something; which maybe it is not more profitable than
what they do.
->two companies sell freedom-respecting devices and ship worldwide.
with not very ethical prices! A better solution was someone with knowledge,
concentrate the information on how to make a laptop, or a desktop, which are
the parts, that work entirely well with free-software; which are the laptops
that works with free-software; and let us assembly the machines. We have
limited money, and have priorities on to use that money.
I understand that that was not too good for those company's, but or we drop
the company's in favour of free software, free information, and a free OS or
we benefit those company's and lose people. Which is more important!
