Am 08.03.2013 12:31, schrieb Kaj Ailomaa: > 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
I fail to find anything of the above mentioned in this Blog-entry. This one only talks about the(quite odd) rolling-release idea. Not a single word on why a Shopping Lense is installed/active by default and nothing regarding DRM. Did he post something on these issues(after the September 23 post about amazon)? > > 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. > -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
