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What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. This bug is still far from fixed by this measure. There seem to be onl
by reedlaw 13y ago
What should happen:
A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.
This bug is still far from fixed by this measure. There seem to be only a tiny handful of PCs that only include free software.[1][2] Only a single laptop includes a free BIOS!
1. http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/LaptopGuide http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/LaptopGuide
2. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Freest http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Freest
- raylu 13y agoMy real beef is how readily Ubuntu installs proprietary software (like binary drivers) while having this "bug" in its tracker. Yes, yes, if you want to get anything done now, you need those drivers. And a lot of users wouldn't use Linux at all if they couldn't get what they wanted now. But the long-term implications of giving into hardware manufacturers is you will never get an open driver. Ubuntu does not care about free software at all (whether or not for good reason) and it annoys me that they pretend to.