[BadVista Advocate] Ubuntu?

[Don Hensley]

Hi Michael,

I have your post about actually using Vista, and I've been trying to find time 
to thank you for it. 

I'm hoping for more such input.

Possibly I could influence you into dropping in at 
http://wiki.binaryfreedom.info/index.php/BadVista_Advocacy
Over on the Binary Freedom site. I am not sure how many people on this list 
know that the Binary Freedom people are officially listed by GNU.org as one 
of the "Sites about the use and development of free software".

They are doing a good job of trying to do something about many of today's 
software related problems. 

They rather surprised me by just grabbing a potential outline I posted, in the 
hope of starting to bring order to this, and created a BadVista Advocacy 
Wiki, using my (horribly) rough proposed outline.

It needs all the help it can get, so any edits, comments, additions would be 
very welcome.

Thanks,
Don.
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 On Monday 30 April 2007 07:41 am, Michael D. Stemle, Jr. wrote:
I don't think we need to accept non-free drivers, but I also don't think we
need to beat up on folks who're using them.  It's not the user's fault that
these folks are failing to release specs, and it's not the user's fault that
the hardware vendors are restricting their freedom.

That said, when it is possible non-free drivers should be avoided.  By time
you've got a device requiring a non-free driver, the bad guy has already
profited.  The solution is to avoid the hardware that requires the driver,
not the driver itself.  And we should insist that these drivers are not
included in default installs of our distribution of choice.  As much as folks
hate on Ubuntu, these drivers are still in repositories and not on default
install discs.

The way to change it here is to be involved in our distro of choice, and
 raise loud objections when non-free drivers get worked into the mix.
  Beating up the victim isn't really the answer here.  Let's try going after
 the offender.

Boy are we off topic.

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