From kbrett at tmail.com Sun Oct 14 13:16:46 2007 From: kbrett at tmail.com (Kayla Brett) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:16:46 +1300 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] List Message-ID: <1192382210.67B3D85@gi21.dngr.org> -kayla- Sent from my T-Mobile Sidekick? From sunnzy at gmail.com Mon Oct 15 13:25:47 2007 From: sunnzy at gmail.com (Sunnz) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:25:47 +1000 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Dell & Gobuntu? Message-ID: I don't know what people's view about this or if you have heard about Gobuntu... But Gobuntu is like gNewSense, a distribution of Ubuntu without non-free software, drivers, nor codecs. From what I have seen it encourages free software in a ways, e.g. when you try to browse a video on youtube, it promptly asks you to install Gnash. Dell has been known to sell preinstalled Ubuntu computers for a while, and many of us may know, Ubuntu is not the OS fsf/binaryfreedom advocate as it contains non-free stuff. But since Dell already supports Ubuntu, wouldn't suggesting them to also provide hardware support to Gobuntu the next logical step? Please tell me what you think. I have requested for Gobuntu at the Dell Idea Storm web-site, if you like this idea, my request at their web page can use some votes: http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/74433/Support_Gobuntu_a_free_version_of_Ubuntu Thanks!! Sun. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 From matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu Tue Oct 16 03:05:27 2007 From: matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu (Matthew Flaschen) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:05:27 -0400 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Dell & Gobuntu? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> Sunnz wrote: > Please tell me what you think. I have requested for Gobuntu at the > Dell Idea Storm web-site, if you like this idea, my request at their > web page can use some votes: > http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/74433/Support_Gobuntu_a_free_version_of_Ubuntu I've commented and voted for it. Matt Flaschen From sunnzy at gmail.com Tue Oct 16 09:15:07 2007 From: sunnzy at gmail.com (Sunnz) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:15:07 +1000 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Dell & Gobuntu? In-Reply-To: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> References: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> Message-ID: 2007/10/16, Matthew Flaschen : > Sunnz wrote: > > > Please tell me what you think. I have requested for Gobuntu at the > > Dell Idea Storm web-site, if you like this idea, my request at their > > web page can use some votes: > > http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/74433/Support_Gobuntu_a_free_version_of_Ubuntu > > I've commented and voted for it. > > Matt Flaschen > > > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > Advocate at badvista.org > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > Cool, thanks. I am not on other free software advocacy list, so if anyone like the idea please forward this to other list!! The idea really needs some votes as there happens to be a group of people on Dell's site who doesn't like the idea of freedom and voted against it!! -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 From fred.k at ieee.org Wed Oct 17 21:11:13 2007 From: fred.k at ieee.org (=?UTF-8?B?RnJlZCBPa3VtYSDlpKfnhoo=?=) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:11:13 +0900 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Dell & Gobuntu? In-Reply-To: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> References: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> Message-ID: <4716B2B1.5080407@ieee.org> > a group of people on Dell's site who doesn't like the idea of freedom and voted against it!! Are they succeeding in blocking my login, knowing my intention to promote your idea? ... No. Just kidding but my login silently ignored by Dell. Hmmm. Fred From sunnzy at gmail.com Wed Oct 17 21:59:21 2007 From: sunnzy at gmail.com (Sunnz) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:59:21 +1000 Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Dell & Gobuntu? In-Reply-To: <4716B2B1.5080407@ieee.org> References: <471462B7.9070303@gatech.edu> <4716B2B1.5080407@ieee.org> Message-ID: ??, Make sure that you log in at dellideastorm.com not ideastorm.com ... as I had that problem before as well... otherwise I don't really know why, maybe they do try to make it hard to promote ideas? 2007/10/18, Fred Okuma ?? : > > a group of people on Dell's site who doesn't like the idea of freedom and voted against it!! > > Are they succeeding in blocking my login, knowing my intention to > promote your idea? ... No. Just kidding but my login silently ignored by > Dell. Hmmm. > > Fred > > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0