GPL concerns maintain user freedom

GPL concerns maintain user freedom

Posted May 16, 2006 17:13 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205)
In reply to: GPL concerns maintain user freedom by einstein
Parent article: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

You bet I'm in a position of strength.

They can't force me to buy their hardware. They'll either support my OS of choice, or I won't buy it, simple as that.

Now maybe they're perfectly happy without my business. But you know what, I don't think so. Because they sure go to a lot of trouble to put up this deceptive illusion of linux support. They work a lot harder, in fact, at creating that illusion than they'd need to work to actually be supported. It kind of makes you wonder...

But the point is that the libre OS market is obviously big enough for them to spend all this unecessary effort on providing fake support for, so it follows that it is indeed big enough for them to care about.

So what's the problem? They're more comfortable with faking the support, for reasons of ingrained old-think, and enough well-meaning but ignorant users buy the illusion that they get enough reïnforcement of their own ideas to sustain the illusion? It's a guess.

At any rate, the market is big enough to get their attention or they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. So I think the next step is to raise awareness with that market that what they're doing doesn't actually constitute supporting, or being supported with, libre software.

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