GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons

Izhar Firdaus kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 14:34:40 UTC 2008


http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3733286

=============
In the same way, you only have to glance at the user forums of major
distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu to see that more users are
concerned with getting proprietary video drivers installed than with
having control of their own computers. After all, the proprietary
drivers are available at no cost, just like the ethically free ones,
so why not use them, especially when they are technologically more
advanced? I've even seen some users castigate Fedora for not providing
the proprietary drivers in its repositories.

Never mind that to do so would be against Fedora's policy of including
only free software -- with such users, the short term convenience of
the technically superior proprietary drivers outweighs the ethos of
freedom. Many of the complainers do not even appear to have heard of
free software ideals. Nor do they bother listening when those ideals
are raised.
=============

-- 
Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail
Amano Hikaru
天野晃 「あまの ひかる」
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus
http://blog.kagesenshi.org
92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331




More information about the marketing mailing list