Freedom (Re: Most offensive thing I've seen all day)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:15:55PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:58, Mark Reitblatt wrote:
> > On 8/3/06, Patrick McFarland <diablod3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://www.christianubuntu.com
> >
> > What exactly is so offensive about a group tailoring an open source project
> > to provide the programs they want? Am I missing something here? At any
> > rate, I highly doubt this belongs on the Ubuntu-Devel list.
> 
> Its a religious group, Mark. If you're a Christian, I can see how you don't 
> find this offensive.
> 
> And if it doesnt belong on the Ubuntu-Devel list, then it belongs on the 
> Ubuntu-Legal list. I cannot see how Ubuntu would allow such use of the name 
> to, basically, promote a religion. This goes entirely against what Ubuntu is 
> for.

Quite the contrary, in fact.  One of the core values of Ubuntu is that it is
available to everyone, without restriction on how they use it.  That is an
important part of the freedom provided by "free software".

Religious organizations, governments, charities and stamp collecting clubs
are all welcome and encouraged to adopt Ubuntu and to customize it to meet
their needs, regardless of whether they share an ideology with other Ubuntu
users.  This is what it's all about.

-- 
 - mdz