On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:16:17 +0100, <[email protected]> wrote:
I've looked into rebasing my entire install directly on Debian because of
first the Amazon mess, now the Mir mess, and finally word on Phoronix
that Ubuntu is looking into supporting digital rights management, hoping
to run on smartphones. They are abandoning the free and open desktop-
and will HAVE to do so if they want to be a third commerical smartphone
OS.
There's no indication what so ever, of what I can see, that Canonical is
abandoning free software.
Please read what Marc Shuttleworth wrote in response to a lot of what has
been going on lately. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1228
IMO, all that has gone bad is communication. The suggestions and
announcements might have been presented at a better time, and in a better
way. People got a bit shocked when there were so many changes at once, so
suddenly announced, changing scheduled events that had been planned for
months. And to top it off, announcing a window X replacement. Just bad
timing, I think.
Ubuntu has never been blocking non-free software. Rather the other way
around. However, the OS itself is free, and will always continue to be.
That is the pledge that Canonical has given, and I see no indication to
them taking back that pledge.
Where do you draw the line? The kernel includes non-free drivers. You are
free to build your own version of the kernel, of course.
Debian packages those separately, and puts them in a non-free repo, but
not Ubuntu. Why? For practical reasons. Most people rather just have their
wifi working right off the bat.
I'm not going to use DRM. Again, can't say what a Ubuntu phone will look
like, but I find it hard to believe that one would be forced to use such
non-free software technology.
That said, has anyone considered the dirty business around hardware?
Precious metals and all that? I don't know much about it, but I think we
could probably all agree on that all though the software is free, doesn't
mean the machine it runs on is a blessing to humanity.
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