Re: [gNewSense-users] Glossy GNU ?

[Karl Goetz]

Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
>>   
>>> Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>>     
>>> My conspiracy theory is this:
>>>
>>> Ubuntu is under a lot of pressure (from freedom-oblivious users) to
>>> release a much less free (more non-free drivers) distribution.  There
>>> are some in the Ubuntu community who would like this not to happen.  For
>>> them they are producing a token Free distro.
>>>     
>> All right, except it will only be token distro if no one uses it.
>>   
> 
> I think that this will unfortunately be the case.  Thus resulting in a
> net loss of freedom for the Ubuntu community.  Ubuntu has a fair amount
> of sway in the industry at the moment.  They could have used that
> influence to pressure hardware manufacturers to release free drivers,
> but their priorities seem to be to make "Linux" "just work" with
> non-free software instead.

I think you overestimate how much leverage canonical has against
hardware companies.
kk

> 
> This is all conjecture at this point.  I hope it doesn't turn out as I
> envision it.

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Karl Goetz
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