PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks

Posted Feb 6, 2010 6:36 UTC (Sat) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks by coriordan
Parent article: Matt Asay becomes Canonical's COO

Hmmm Ubuntu truely FOSS ??? Since when? A distro shipping binary kernel modules by default is hard to call "truely FOSS" by any standard.

PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks

Posted Feb 6, 2010 12:11 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

You can choose not to at install time, or easily remove non-free bits after installation. Both work equally fine for me. Some others claim even offering non-free binaries like Debian contrib/non-free is against FOSS... to me the defining thing is whether the non-free bits are properly separated from the free bits. That's what caused me to switch from SUSE to Ubuntu in the first place, in 2004 (before SUSE became openSUSE and it started paying a bit more attention to these things).