RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[chinaski]

hello,

first of all I'd like to say I respect everybody's opinion, of course

I've been reading the whole thread and was at first confused: a -little
compromise- for the sake of spreading Ubuntu... good or bad?

but then I step into this:
>   Because Free Software is very often attractive for purely practical
> reasons, we have collected tens of millions of users who choose Free
> Software purely for practical benefits and do not appreciate the
> freedom that we have given them. 
> 
> These are the kind of people that *assume that you should choose
> between Free Software and proprietary software based on practical
> convenience*, which is another way of saying that they value freedom at
> zero. How sad. How can freedom ever be safe, when people don't
> appreciate it. People have had to fight for freedom, over and over.
> 
> And when people do not value their freedom, they are very likely to
> lose it. But that's the fact. Most of our community does not appreciate
> freedom.
> RMS
> http://tinyurl.com/ngbg9
>  wow!

ok, I am not saying that anyone accepting non_free_sofware included in
Ubuntu is likely to lose, irrespectful or free software and so on. not
at all. I believe the fredoom of having an opinion and express stays
before "freedom 0" ;)

but personally I totally agree with RMS: 100% or nothing.

thank you for your attention, and pls excuse me if I sound arrogant or
out of place posting here

pls also excuse me for my poor english :)


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chinaski