Announcing Foresight 2.0

Announcing Foresight 2.0

I understand what you mean, but I doubt that any coordinated boycott of NVIDIA or other unfriendly companies by distributions would work. There will be distributions who put immediate convenience of their users above everything, even long term wins.

On the other hand, routing around some obstacles can bring long term benefits. It the hardware is already available, it's better to use free software on it. It may not translate to immediate financial benefits or losses, but it will have a significant effect in the long term.

If people get familiar with free software at home, it will be easier for them to find a job where free software is used, and vice versa. Children familiar with free software are potential developers. More users means more eyes that make bugs shallow. Granted, not in the non-free code, but there is plenty of free code that will be tested in real life conditions.

Please remember the profits of the hardware makers are proportional to the number of users, but the network effect is proportional to square of the number of users.

> I understand what you mean, but I doubt that any coordinated boycott of
> NVIDIA or other unfriendly companies by distributions would work.

i suppose, you don't go vote either... fair enough. but please let us live 
our (pipe?) dream...