Launchpad - closed source

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 08:12, Corey Burger wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Shawn McMahon <smcmahon at eiv.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:36:22AM -0800, Corey Burger said:
> > > Now do see why an open source distribution relying on a closed source
> > > tool is completely unacceptable? Yes, replacement for all those tools
> >
> > We are going to run your free replacement tool on a system with no
> > non-free code in the hardware, right?  Microprocessor?  Video board?
> > BIOS?  No?  Unclean! Unclean!
>
> I would prefer not to, but I understand the realities of the
> situation. There is no good replacement for the BIOS yet, although the
> OLPC guys are rocking with LinuxBIOS apparently. There are good
> replacements for everything LP does.
>
Considering how much ubuntu depends on Launchpad (and please don't take this 
as confrontational, because it is genuinely nto intended to be, jus tmy 
personal curiosity speaking here), why do you use Ubuntu?

Sasha