False premise: something being forkable does not make it free. Perhaps the derivative is free, but this article wasn't about running the derivative, was it? Al

False premise: something being forkable does not make it free. Perhaps the derivative is free, but this article wasn't about running the derivative, was it? Also, your last paragraph pretty much backs up my original point: if you're going to stand on your high horse of software-freedom and write about how great it is, you better go all in. That Dell is running proprietary software; at the firmware level in the least, but probably with binary blob drivers. Oh, and the article doesn't mention (nor you) about how you have to opt-out of third party sharing of your desktop search results with Amazon! That's not freedom respecting, so please don't try to divert attention away from these very valid points with arguments about how something is forkable.