[BadVista Advocate] Xandros

[Jacob Maynard]

Right, but we're talking about 8 months since Novell turned coat. In 8
months, can all of the free developers (I refrain from saying open-source
because of the separate ideals, though open-source could join in) get
together and enhance the capabilities of a truly free system to the point
that there is no need for proprietary anything and is not uncomfortable to
switch to from Windows systems? I have no doubts that it COULD happen, I
just don't think that it WILL happen. Given time and a clear objective,
plus a worldwide collaboration, a system could be made to fit these
guidelines. But we have to be realistic about it.

So, if another company does this in another 8 months, we're in even bigger
trouble. Our timeline gets shortened to develop a distribution that will
encourage the general populace to turn from Windows. And we have to have
that to keep GNU/Linux free and accomplish our objectives.

Jacob

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:02:54AM -0400, Jacob Maynard wrote:
>> Agreed, but what do we do aside from refusing to use their product? I
>> mean, we can't very well support SuSE and Xandros. That's against the
>> ideals of the FSF. Do you have specific ideas you can tell us about? I
>> welcome them.
>>
>
> How about helping to make the Free ones better rather than working to make
> the
> non-Free ones worse? And doing so in a way that means that the non-Free
> ones
> have to come back to being Free in order to benefit from the work (GPLv3
> for
> example)
>
> --
> Graham Cox
>
> "The medium is the message."
> -- Marshall McLuhan
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