ethical ubuntu

[Scott Dier]

Jack Wasey wrote:
  > I think Ubuntu should be thinking about more than opposition to
> proprietary, closed-source software and protocols. Other things are bad, 
> too, and Ubuntu can play a valuable part in informing people of how 
> their choices of software affect the real world, not just the free 
> software world.

With interesting nits like how Skype may be better for say, someone 
requiring encryption whereas many sip clients do not.  This seems to be 
far more of an important issue for someone like a human rights worker in 
a non-friendly country that happens to still allow internet access (hey, 
it happens).

A data security spec could be written in the same fashion with the 
intent of educating users about how their data is transported over the 
network.  Many users still don't know that much of their AIM traffic is 
just out there in the wind, etc.

Both issues are laudable, but I don't think a software distribution can 
do much more than either turn into nagware or provide some documentation 
or pointers to documentation on the topics.  Interested users will 
obviously be searching out this information themselves.

Thanks,

-- 
Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>