Stop it already!
Mauro
mrsanna1 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 00:03:39 UTC 2013
Ubuntu is born free but is now becoming less free with the acquisition by
canonical and I don't like this.
On 9 November 2013 00:58, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:36 PM, William Scott Lockwood III
> > <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III
> >>> <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Why is it that people who post about the recent issue with Canonical
> (see
> >>>> http://tinyurl.com/ThouShaltNotBeCritical please) are suddenly being
> placed
> >>>> in moderated status? Hypocrisy much? What your corporate masters do
> and
> >>>> don't do is in fact a valid technical issue for discussion. The way
> in which
> >>>> we can or cannot use the software dictates behavior. Lastly, you
> should
> >>>> listen to your user base.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Is this a technical issue? Couldn't you blog/tweet about this? Or
> >>
> >> To me it is. Where else I post about it isn't really germane to this
> >> list, is it? Either the distro is free or it isn't. Either the people
> >> making it are respectful good actors in the community, or they're
> >> people who try to trademark common words in any language, which is the
> >> very definition of BAD ACTOR.
> >>>
> >>> discuss it on the non-technical list that was created after the
> >>> lists.ubuntu.com non-technical one was shut down?
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm sure you'd like to keep marginalizing those of us who were
> >> subscribed to that list. No. Reap what you sow, folks.
> >
> > I couldn't care less about your problem with Ubuntu/Canonical - or
> > anyone else's. This is non-technical, FSF-political issue.
> >
> > I hope that the moderators will shut you down immediately because this
> > is a technical list as is stated at the top of
> >
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users:
>
>
> IT IS A TECHNICAL ISSUE! Some people use free software in environments
> that require FREEDOM. If Ubuntu is not free, or is less free, then
> suddenly, that is a TECHNICAL reason why they can't use it! WAKE UP!
>
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