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Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com)Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com)Posted Jul 15, 2007 10:52 UTC (Sun) by slef (subscriber, #14720)In reply to: Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com) by sbergman27 Parent article: Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com)
> And I'm still asking how letting the user make an *informed* decision about the software loaded on his own machine can possibly be considered *less* Free than arrogantly *forcing* an inferior, or nonworking system upon him "for his own good".
The question of whether someone who can sell themselves into slavery is freer than someone who is forbidden to do that by their government is an age-old debate and unlikely to be settled in comments on LWN.
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Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com) Posted Jul 15, 2007 14:56 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] """The question of whether someone who can sell themselves into slavery is freer than someone who is forbidden to do that by their government is an age-old debate """
And totally irrelevant to the current discussion, because users are not selling themselves into slavery, but allowing their own hardware to work properly.
Comparing that to human slavery is beyond absurd.
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