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Taking a political angle on it: Won't the free software market decide winners and losers? In other words, there are hundreds of Linux distributions. Choose a d
by Osiris 14y ago
Taking a political angle on it: Won't the free software market decide winners and losers?
In other words, there are hundreds of Linux distributions. Choose a different one. If you really like it fork it and rebuild it without support for that feature.
Isn't the point of free software that you have the inherent right to do whatever you want to the software to make it do what you want (or not do what you don't)?
- TallGuyShort 14y agoYou're exactly right - and his article is explicitly encouraging this behaviour. He's not calling for any additional action than for people to create, recommend and use distributions that don't do this, and to make others aware of the potentially harmful effects of Ubuntu's decision.