[BadVista Advocate] Ubuntu? Well OT.

[Michael D. Stemle, Jr.]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:31:34 Lam YongXian wrote:
> > 2007/5/2, Lam YongXian <news at adolflam.com>:
> >>The former one
> >> will give us more people, but whats the use when they dun understand the
> >> ultimate ideal of free software? It would just make us another group of
> >> jealous people on Microsoft(R) success.
> >
> > However, if the motive for people to leave M$ is DRM, then we have won
> > half of the battle.
> >
> > I have been reading all this posts, but I think it is going to be very
> > ineffective if we are to hard-sell free and only free software. There
> > are two things people are fighting for at the moment, DRM and closed
> > software, they are 2 different things, and I think it is better to
> > focus on DRM at the moment, everyone hates DRM when they finds out
> > about it, but the same people may not hate closed software... we must
> > first enlighten people about DRM, then promote free software as a
> > secondary area.
> >
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> Yes, I am not ruling out the step by step strategy in doing this. We just
> have to be careful not to lose our goal of free software (look at OSI).
> And while in the process of doing so, not to mislead people on the goal.
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Freedom--and COMPLETE freedom at that--has been and still is the goal.  It's 
just taking time.  When GNU was first around, there was no way to run a free 
software operating system.  Now there is.  Ubuntu isn't the completely free 
solution that we want, but it is one that will help better the position of 
free software.  Let's keep calling it GNU/Linux, and let's keep pushing for 
freedom.  We'll use gNewSense, and we'll promote gNewSense (let's all make 
sure we're seeding it via torrents), and we should also rejoice that even 
though other folks aren't completely free due to poor licensing practices of 
hardware and software vendors, that they are magnitudes more free than they 
were.

I also think that the increased adoption of Ubuntu will encourage 
manufacturers to release specs and software companies to free formats (how 
cool would it be if Flash was made a free format?).

Yeah, we have those who like to stand on soap boxes and proclaim their moral 
superiority, and they may be right that they are more free... but if we keep 
increasing awareness and increasing freedom, and keep reminding people to 
value their freedom, we'll get where we're going.

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