Launchpad - closed source

[Corey Burger]

On 11/7/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I have used Ubuntu since before LP was a major part of it. I have
constantly advocated to have LP freed up. I also feel that I have a
bigger voice inside the community than outside.

Corey