Ubuntu is not free.

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Sat Jul 8 17:16:35 UTC 2006


meets at free.fr schrieb:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:09:16 +0200
> "Adriano Varoli Piazza" <moranar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2006/7/8, meets at free.fr <meets at free.fr>:
>> > Hello,
>> > A man reported the fact in a french mailing list : some proprietary
>> > firmwares are inclueded in the kernel package.
> 
>> > We users _want Ubuntu to stay free_, and we don't need non free
>> > firmwares pollution in the default kernel packages. It's quite easy
>> > to install afterwards when needed.
>> You don't get to say what I as a user want or do not want, need or do
>> not need. Please don't assume everyone agrees with you, even on this
>> matter.
> Hello,
> I am wrong to assume that indeed, but all should consider that a free
> distribution should be free in the sense of free access to source code.

Who are you to say, what *all* users *should* do?

Again: You're in no position to speak for all users of free software
and you're even less in a position to say what they should do.

Alexander Skwar
-- 
Im Endeffekt war alles cooler als letztes Jahr, obwohl
ich bis Donnerstag dachte, das es nicht geht.
		-- Igor Gilitschenski




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