Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Any folks in Manchester interested in participating in an Ubuntu Global Jam event if I were to organise one?

[Bob Ham]

On 2013-02-19 13:50, MJ Ray wrote:
> Bob Ham <address@hidden>
> > I would find working for the benefit of a distribution that spies on
> > its users and sends local search strings to Canonical, to be
> > demotivating.
>
> I would, too.  I believe free software can do better than "all hail
> our new rulers: same as the old rulers, except now they don't hide 
> how
> they spy on us".
>
> If anyone else believes similar, please come help us develop a
> distribution that's not controlled by any single corporation

Yes, please come and help us:

  http://trisquel.info/

:-)


> The mentioning of non-free firmware files is even more awkward - if a
> system doesn't work correctly without them and they do exist, should
> the installer really hide that fact?

One could look at it another way: if a system contains hardware whose 
manufacturer doesn't respect users' freedoms, should the installer 
encourage users to install freedom-denying firmware?


--
Bob Ham <address@hidden>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }