Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Anarchist Bookfair, 7th June 2008

[Benjamin Webb]

> Now that this has been explained here, if the group's still fine with
> distributing non-free software, then it's fine and I'll stop, but

The tricky thing is that its hared to tell what "the group" thinks.
There seem to be a lot varied opinions on this mailing list thread,
but it is mainly the loudest people that you hear shouting. I would
suggest some sort of poll to gauge consensus, but that would no doubt
cause more trouble.

AFAICT, the amount of non-free software on the ubuntu cds is really
quite small, and distributing it is a necessary evil in order to get
some people interesting in software freedom.

> promoting one of the distributions that aims to be fully free software
> would be a good extra option.

Yes, we should always have gnewsense cds as well, and explain that
they are more free than ubuntu. However, I don't think it is practical
to give gnewsense cds to most first-time-gnu-users, as most will see
even switiching to ubuntu as an inconvenience.