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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 14:56 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com) by slef
Parent article: Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu (Linux.com)

"""
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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